King Charles has discussed the dangers of artificial intelligence with Nvidia founder Jensen Huang at a ceremony for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize). The King presented the 2025 award to seven pioneers of modern machine learning, including Huang, at St James’s Palace.
Huang said the King handed him a letter containing a speech on AI safety from the 2023 Bletchley Park summit. “He obviously cares very deeply about AI safety,” Huang told reporters. “He believes in the power of the technology … but he also wants to remind us that the technology could be used for good and for evil.”
Chinese-American computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, the only woman among the 2025 winners, said she spoke with Charles about ensuring AI “is doing good for people, and making sure we’re aware of the risks”. She noted that AI is a “double-edged sword” with benefits for healthcare and education, but also risks such as job displacement and deepfakes.
The 2025 QEPrize also honoured John Hopfield, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Nvidia’s Bill Dally for their work on brain-inspired computing and hardware for machine learning. The 2024 prize was awarded to Andrew Garrad and Henrik Stiesdal for advancing wind power technology.
