The King presented the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to seven recipients at St James's Palace, emphasizing AI safety and its potential to benefit society.

One recipient, Huang, noted his daily use of AI and advocated using multiple models to critique each other, highlighting a second-opinion approach to AI decisions.

Fei-Fei Li, who moved from China at 15, described her trajectory from physics to AI and stressed the importance of high-quality datasets for progress in AI.

The event coincides with advocacy by Prince Harry and Meghan for AI regulation to protect children, including participation in an international coalition calling for a moratorium on AI superintelligence until safety and public buy-in are achieved.

During discussions with winners, the King warned about many bad actors and the rapid emergence of new technologies.

The 2024 QEPrize recipients for wind power—Andrew Garrad and Henrik Stiesdal—were acknowledged at the same ceremony, underscoring cross-disciplinary innovation.

The Earthshot Prize announcement occurred at a separate event in Rio on the same day, linked to the royal engagements worldwide.

The QEPrize trophies for 2024 and 2025 were designed by two young Indian designers who won Create the Trophy, illustrating the prize's broad historical scope from internet development to magnet technology.

A Royal Instagram post documented the event with captions summarizing the winners’ achievements and a carousel of ceremony photos.

Fei-Fei Li was the sole female recipient among the 2025 QEPrize winners, recognized for work in enabling machines to perceive, and she emphasized balancing AI benefits with risks.

The broader AI policy context featured discussions of rapid development, with references to the AI Safety Summit being rebranded as the AI Action Summit and political debates over safety versus progress.