NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang attended an artificial intelligence (AI) summit convened by King Charles III in Scotland on Thursday (September 17), where he predicted that NVIDIA’s chip sales next year will be twice this year’s. Amid growing safety concerns over AI’s rapid development, King Charles III warned that if AI falls into the “wrong hands,” it could pose a threat to humanity’s very survival.
According to media reports, the royal family also invited industry representatives, with attendees including OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, Anthropic Head of Global Affairs Tino Cuéllar, and Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis.
Huang said at the meeting that demand for AI-related technologies and infrastructure is rising, from major AI cloud providers to customers in other industries, and investment scales across national markets are expanding in tandem. According to NVIDIA’s guidance released at the end of last month, the company’s revenue will continue to grow substantially over the next six quarters. Revenue for the fiscal year ending January 2028 is expected to grow about 70% year-on-year, well above the market estimate of 44% — a growth rate that, if extrapolated, would bring full-year revenue to US$673 billion.
In addition, Huang revealed last fall that NVIDIA had shipped 6 million Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) within the previous four quarters. Beyond GPUs, NVIDIA’s semiconductor products include central processing units (CPUs), switch chips, optical networking chips, and laptop chips. There are also Jetson series products used in robots, drones, and other automated devices, and even the chip inside Nintendo’s Switch 2 game console comes from NVIDIA.
However, King Charles III’s aim in convening AI industry representatives was not merely to understand the industry’s development, but also to focus on the safety risks that may lie behind its rapid growth. He pointed out that if advanced technology falls into the wrong hands, it could be used for dangerous purposes and even cause catastrophe. The industry must establish relevant safety standards and control mechanisms early on.
In response to King Charles III’s concerns, Huang said that even as AI develops rapidly, safety must still be taken into account, and tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products and services are sufficiently safe before launch. If a product has not yet met safety standards, its release should be postponed while engineering improvements continue.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I suppose we might readily agree that the development of AI – its substance and its pace – are both intriguing and deeply concerning in equal measure.”
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) September 17, 2026
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