AI is moving incredibly quickly.
But perhaps the most important question is no longer simply:
“What can it do?”
It may increasingly be:
“What should we allow it to do — and what must remain under human judgement?”
This week King Charles brought leaders from some of the world’s biggest AI companies together in Scotland and raised concerns about the pace of development, the potential misuse of increasingly powerful systems and the need for safeguards.
What struck me was not the idea that AI itself is inherently good or bad.
It is that capability is advancing much faster than our ability to agree on responsibility.
AI can already help researchers, businesses, doctors, creators and millions of ordinary people do things that would have been impossible only a few years ago.
But greater capability also means greater responsibility.
The challenge may not be choosing between innovation and caution.
It may be learning how to pursue both at the same time.
Technology should expand human capability without removing human accountability.
As AI becomes more powerful, what do you believe must always remain a human decision?
