Overview
- At St James’ Palace on Nov. 5, the King presented the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to seven leaders in modern machine learning.
- He told winners there are “a lot of bad actors” and highlighted the rapid pace of emerging technologies.
- Jensen Huang said the King approached him saying “I need to talk to you” and handed him a letter he described as a speech on AI safety.
- Laureates included Fei‑Fei Li, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, John Hopfield, Jensen Huang and Bill Dally, with the QEPrize likened in coverage to a Nobel of engineering.
- Fei‑Fei Li stressed AI’s benefits for sectors such as healthcare and education while warning about risks from deepfakes, shifting jobs and automated decisions; no new policy steps were announced.