King Charles III to host major AI leaders this week.
Anthropic said in a threat intelligence report last week that its Claude models had been used in weapons development, cyber operations, surveillance and fraud. US President Donald Trump rejected calls for a slowdown in AI development on Sunday, while China’s state-backed Global Times newspaper accused Anthropic of using a “Cold War playbook” against Beijing. Britain’s King Charles III will host top leaders of the global artificial intelligence industry this week for crucial talks on whether shared principles are needed to govern the rapidly advancing technology. The meeting at Dumfries House, Scotland, comes as warnings over AI’s potential threat to humanity grow louder. Executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic, along with the UK’s minister for AI, are expected to attend. The talks follow warnings from two Anthropic researchers that increasingly powerful AI systems could eventually lead to the extinction of the human race. The concerns come as AI systems are being used for increasingly sophisticated tasks, including by people carrying out criminal or harmful activities. Finding a common approach among major AI powers could prove difficult.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei also said on Saturday that AI companies should slow the pace of developing new models.