{"id":276051,"date":"2025-07-20T00:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276051\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:21:21","slug":"crowning-ai-chievement-robot-artist-creates-portrait-of-king-charles-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276051\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowning AI-chievement: robot artist creates portrait of King Charles &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Our favourite AI humanoid robot, Ai-Da, is once again making waves in the art world\u2014this time with a portrait of the UK monarch King Charles III. The painting, entitled Algorithm King, was revealed this week at the UK Mission in Geneva as part of the 2025 \u201cAI for Good Summit\u201d hosted by the UN. <\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">\u201cPresenting my portrait of His Majesty King Charles III is not just a creative act, it\u2019s a statement about the evolving role of AI in our society, and to reflect on how artificial intelligence is shaping the cultural landscape,\u201d Ai-Da says (in a robotic statement). Ai-Da previously painted the late Queen Elizabeth II in a portrait titled Algorithm Queen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Ai-Da, the artist robot and brainchild of Oxford gallerist Aidan Meller, is on a roll, smashing the record last November for a work of art created by a robot (her painting\u00a0A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, 2024, sold for more than \u00a31m at <a class=\"transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2024\/11\/08\/ai-da-robot-painting-sells-one-million-sothebys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sotheby\u2019s New York<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Ai-Da, who was assigned a female gender, paints with the help of cameras in her eyes and mechanical arms. Her robotic reach goes beyond arty pursuits too: in 2022, members of the<a class=\"transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2022\/10\/12\/artist-robot-goes-to-uk-parliamentand-gives-politicians-nightmares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> House of Lords in the UK parliament<\/a> heard from Ai-Da as part of their enquiry into the future of the UK\u2019s creative industries.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"644\" height=\"897.5659955257271\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 644 897.5659955257271'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/jpeg;base64,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'\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a393509380f5c2ea35ff6153a400cdd84c3ed804-3576x4984.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>King Charles III by Ai-Da<\/p>\n<p>courtesy: Ai-Da Robot Studios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our favourite AI humanoid robot, Ai-Da, is once again making waves in the art world\u2014this time with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,104231,1942,7792,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-da","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-diary","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114882706342514281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}