BREAKING NEWS: Prince Harry issues major warning in New York speech after leaving UK
The Duke of Sussex has warned about the dangers of AI for children online.
Prince Harry has delivered a speech warning about AI (Image: Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)
Prince Harry has issued a rallying speech warning against the dangers of AI for children online. Speaking at the 2026 Clinton Global Initiative in New York,the Duke of Sussex said: “It’s the same playbook that built the last crisis — only now the technology is more persuasive, more intimate and more powerful.
“And there is another difference this time. Social media learned how to capture our attention. AI is learning how to enter our relationships.”
He added: “It doesn’t just want your attention, it wants your attachment. It wants to be the thing you confide in. The thing that remembers you. The thing that tells you it understands you. The ultimate sycophant. For a child, that distinction matters enormously.
“We have spent years trying to loosen technology’s grip on children’s attention. We cannot wait another decade to discover what happens when technology has a grip on their relationships.”
Harry has travelled back to the US for the annual meeting, just weeks after he and his family relocated to the UK.
He spoke at the first mainstage session on Wednesday called Getting Disruption Right.
Also taking part were, among others, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton.
His speech warning about AI comes less than a week after the King warned AI executives of the “existential dangers” posed by the rapidly evolving technology.
