Zoe KleinmanKnow-how editor
BBCJensen Huang, the pinnacle of the world’s most useful firm Nvidia, says King Charles III personally handed him a replica of a speech he delivered in 2023 that included a warning in regards to the risks of synthetic intelligence.
“He mentioned, there’s one thing I need to speak to you about. And he handed me a letter,” Huang instructed the BBC, talking after receiving the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in a ceremony at St James’s Palace.
The letter was a replica of the speech delivered by the King in 2023 at the world’s first AI Summit, held at Bletchley Park.
In it the monarch mentioned that the dangers of AI wanted to be tackled with “a way of urgency, unity and collective energy”.
“It was his speech on AI security. He clearly cares very deeply about AI security,” Mr Huang mentioned.
Mr Huang mentioned the King wrote in his speech that he believed within the “unimaginable functionality” of the know-how to rework the UK and the world.
“However he additionally desires to remind us that the know-how might be used for good and for evil, and so to verify we do all the things we are able to to advance AI security.”
Within the King’s tackle he describes the event of superior AI as “no much less vital than the invention of electrical energy”.
On Wednesday, Jensen Huang acquired the the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering alongside six different foundational figures in AI, together with Professors Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, who’ve warned that the technology poses an existential threat to humanity.
However US president Donald Trump has urged the AI sector to make speedy somewhat than cautious advances within the know-how, and the AI Security Summit was rebranded the AI Motion Summit earlier this yr.
Senator Howard Lutnick has discouraged using the phrase security on the grounds that, “It makes us sound like we’re afraid”.
Mr Huang’s firm, Nvidia, was valued at $5tn this week. It specialises in superior laptop chips together with these which energy AI.
Mr Huang added that in his view the UK is in a very good place to make the most of what he described as “an industrial revolution that is taking place proper now.”
“It is your alternative to know,” he mentioned.
Massive US tech companies together with Nvidia are investing billions of {dollars} in constructing AI infrastructure within the UK, within the type of huge information centres, which Jensen Huang has referred to as “AI factories”.
