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Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, was among top industry leaders attending.<\/p>\n
Nvidia is a central player in AI infrastructure, supplying chips to leading AI model developers including OpenAI and Meta.<\/p>\n
It is also the world’s most valuable company, with a stock market value of around $5.15tn.<\/p>\n
Huang told the room he believed safety was “paramount”, adding that companies should hold back a product and “keep engineering” if it was not safe enough.<\/p>\n
The Nvidia boss also highlighted the value of open models – systems which give users direct access to the software – as a way to “ensure that people and countries are not left behind”.<\/p>\n
He said these systems must also be protected so “researchers, universities, start-ups and countries” can develop applications “none of us would have imagined alone”.<\/p>\n
“Let us lead with responsible optimism, build AI safely and securely, open it to more people, expand our ambition and solve the problems that matter to the world,” Huang added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Sir Demis Hassabis, who co-founded the UK AI lab DeepMind – later acquired by Google – offered a more cautious view on the pace of development.<\/p>\n
He said artificial general intelligence – systems it is believed could be as good as or better than humans at multiple tasks – was “probably only a few short years away” and could have an impact “ten times that of the Industrial Revolution”.<\/p>\n
The chance of something going wrong was “definitely non-zero”, Sir Demis added.<\/p>\n
But he advocated for “a sensible middle way”, saying humanity could address risks if collectively given the space and time to mitigate them.<\/p>\n
“The future is not yet written,” he told the King’s delegates.<\/p>\n
Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s chief financial officer, said AI had the potential to solve some of society’s “hardest problems” – but agreed its growing capabilities raised questions about safety and “how we ensure it always serves people”. <\/p>\n
“We need to address those questions together,” she said. <\/p>\n
“No one company or government can do that alone and I’m grateful to His Majesty for convening this discussion at such an important moment.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n