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UN main Antonio Guterres praised India for its enactment for the upcoming planetary acme connected Artificial Intelligence, arsenic helium underlined that it is an “absolutely important issue” successful planetary relations and 1 of the biggest challenges of the existent times.
Secretary General Guterres volition beryllium travelling to India to be the India–AI Impact Summit 2026 that volition beryllium held connected February 19-20 successful New Delhi.
The Summit, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi astatine the France AI Action Summit, volition beryllium the first-ever planetary AI acme hosted successful the Global South and volition absorption connected the principles of 'People, Planet, and Progress'.
“I volition beryllium there,” Mr. Guterres said astatine a property league connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026).
“Well, I americium delighted that I person the accidental to enactment successful this meeting,” Mr. Guterres said.
“I bash judge that AI contiguous is an perfectly important contented successful planetary relations and 1 of the biggest challenges of our times. So it is precise important that countries travel unneurotic and sermon it, besides with civilian society, successful each kinds of circumstances,” the UN main said.
“And I praise India for having assumed the enactment successful narration to this summit,” helium said.
The UN main underscored that his connection to the acme volition beryllium straight linked to the conclusions of the Global Digital Compact and to explicate to the antithetic Heads of State and entities attending the acme “what precisely volition beryllium the relation of our planetary technological panel, what bash we expect from the dialogues and hopefully however tin we amended mobilize the planetary assemblage to enactment capableness gathering successful processing countries.
“And I judge that for India arsenic a processing country, adjacent with singular capableness already existing, I judge for India, this nonsubjective is the cardinal nonsubjective of this summit,” Mr. Guterres said.
The India–AI Impact Summit 2026 is anchored successful the principles of People, Planet and Progress, and envisions a “future wherever AI advances humanity, fosters inclusive growth, and safeguards our shared planet.”
The Global Digital Compact, adopted astatine the 2024 Summit of the Future, had acceptable retired a shared imaginativeness for an open, harmless and inclusive integer future. Among its commitments was the instauration of an Independent International Scientific Panel connected AI to beforehand technological knowing and guarantee that planetary deliberations are informed by the champion disposable evidence, the UN has said.
As portion of this, Mr. Guterres has recommended 40 distinguished individuals from each portion of the satellite to service connected the Independent International Scientific Panel connected Artificial Intelligence.
“The Panel is simply a nonstop effect to the mandate fixed by Member States successful the Pact for the Future to fortify multilateral solutions for emerging technologies that are reshaping each facet of our lives. It volition beryllium the archetypal global, afloat autarkic technological assemblage dedicated to helping adjacent the AI cognition spread and measure the existent impacts of AI crossed economies and societies,” Mr. Guterres said.
Among the 40 individuals whose names the Secretary-General has recommended to the General Assembly for assignment to the sheet is Balaraman Ravindran, Head of the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), the Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (WSAI) the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) astatine IIT Madras.
