British monarch King Charles III, in a royal message released on Wednesday, hailed the potential of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and encouraged urgency in addressing the risks presented by it. King Charles III of England has urged the world's leading nations to tackle artificial intelligence (AI) risks with "urgency, unity and collective strength" to ensure one of the "greatest technological leaps in human endeavor" becomes "a force for good in this world." "AI holds the potential to completely transform life as we know it: to help us better treat and perhaps even cure conditions like cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's; to hasten our journey toward net-zero; and perhaps to realize a new era of potentially limitless clean green energy," the king said. "Even just to make our everyday lives a bit easier." "However, if we are to realize the untold benefits of AI then we must work together on combating its significant risks too," he added.

Former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus spoke with Fox News Digital about the "breathtaking" pace of AI development and what responsibility the US has to keep allies on the "cutting edge." The U.S. has no responsibility to keep its allies on the "cutting edge" of artificial intelligence (AI) development – unless it is a matter of national security, a former CIA director and retired Army officer tells Fox News Digital. "First and foremost is to ensure that we are on the cutting edge," retired four-star Gen. David Petraeus said during a recent Zoom interview. "Certainly, we should share to varying degrees with our closest partners, and they share with us – again, no one of us is smarter than all of us together in these kinds of endeavors – but it's not our job entirely to ensure that they are proceeding along these lines, unless it's, of course, in our national interest to do so, and it is in a number of different cases," he explained. The pace of AI development has dominated conversation since public access to ChatGPT in November 2022, particularly with concerns over who will stay at the top of the game – a race that drove countries to reassess their investments in the burgeoning field.

MIT researchers have unveiled a new way for consumers and businesses to take to the skies -- by designing and developing their own drones. The program, created by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is a prototype computer system (.PDF) which allows users to create a variety of drones. According to the lab, users can design, simulate and build custom drones, altering the size, shape, and structure depending on how they want their drones fabricated and their purpose -- which impacts on factors including payload tolerance, flight time, and battery life. To demonstrate the system, CSAIL created a range of unusual drones, including a five-rotor "pentacopter" and a rabbit-shaped "bunnycopter." MIT says the program could pave the way for businesses and consumers to develop new drones able to perform a wider variety of functions.