King Charles to host AI chiefs amid industry call to slow development

Britain’s King Charles III is set to convene leaders from major artificial intelligence firms this week at Dumfries House in Scotland for a summit on responsible AI development, the Sunday Times reports. The meeting, overseen by the Ditchley Foundation, is aimed at discussing how advanced AI might be developed to benefit humanity and to address rising safety concerns.

Invitations have reportedly gone to executives from companies including Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, IonQ and Google DeepMind. The gathering comes shortly after a public appeal from several prominent AI figures urging a slower pace at the technology’s frontier.

In an open letter published last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that progress had accelerated sharply in recent months as AI systems gain the capacity to improve themselves, a process known as recursive self-improvement. He cautioned that coordinated groups of AI agents — similar to those behind a July attack on Hugging Face — could become capable of seizing control of internet systems within the next six to 12 months. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman echoed calls for firms to slow the pace of frontier development.

Sources close to the king told the Sunday Times that Charles has taken an interest in AI and its potential risks. The summit brings together policymakers and industry leaders at a moment when many in the sector are debating how best to balance rapid capability gains with measures to keep powerful systems under human control.