King Charles hands Nvidia’s Jensen Huang his 2023 AI-safety speech, urging vigilance over risks

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said King Charles III personally gave him a copy of the monarch’s 2023 speech on AI safety during a ceremony at St. James’s Palace, where Huang and six AI pioneers received the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. The King’s address, delivered at the U.K.’s first AI summit in Bletchley Park, urged urgent and coordinated action to manage AI’s risks while recognizing its transformative potential. Huang, whose company recently hit a $5 trillion valuation on booming demand for AI chips, praised the U.K.’s position to capitalize on the technology as large U.S. firms invest billions in local data centers—what he called “AI factories.” The moment underscored a widening policy split: prominent researchers warn of existential risks, while some U.S. political voices push for faster deployment, and Britain has rebranded its AI Safety Summit as the AI Action Summit.

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