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India is simply a "very successful" emerging system with a bigger power successful planetary affairs, and is the “right place” to big the AI summit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.
In an exclusive interrogation with PTI astatine the UN Headquarters up of the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, Guterres underscored that artificial quality should payment the full satellite and not conscionable beryllium a privilege reserved for developed nations oregon 2 superpowers.
“I powerfully congratulate India for organising this Summit. It's perfectly indispensable that AI develops itself to the payment of everybody, everyplace and that countries successful the Global South are portion of the benefits of AI,” helium said.
The high-powered lawsuit being held from February 16 to February 20 volition beryllium the first-ever AI acme hosted successful the Global South and is anchored successful the 3 guiding principles of ‘People, Planet and Progress’.
Mr. Guterres, who volition beryllium travelling to India to be the Summit, asserted “it would beryllium wholly unacceptable that AI would beryllium conscionable a privilege of the astir developed countries oregon a part lone betwixt 2 superpowers”, an evident notation to the U.S. and China.
“It is perfectly indispensable that AI becomes a cosmopolitan instrumentality for the payment of humankind,” Mr. Guterres said.
“The relation of India, [which] is contiguous a precise palmy emerging system that is having a bigger and bigger relation successful not lone the planetary system but successful its power successful planetary affairs, India is the close spot to person this Summit and to marque definite that AI [is] being discussed successful depth, successful each its tremendous imaginable and besides successful each its risks, but that AI belongs to the full satellite and not lone to a few,” helium said.
From satellite leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to exertion honchos, including Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the Summit is bringing unneurotic leaders, policymakers and innovators from crossed the satellite for deep-dive discussions connected the mode guardant for AI.
Guterres had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi precocious past twelvemonth connected the sidelines of the G20 Summit successful Johannesburg and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar erstwhile helium was successful New York.
Underlining his beardown advocacy for multipolarity, Mr. Guterres highlighted India’s publication successful a multipolar world, saying helium looks guardant to discussing this with the Indian enactment during his sojourn to New Delhi.
"There are 2 things we request to debar successful the world. We request to debar the strategy successful which determination is full hegemony by lone 1 powerfulness oregon a strategy successful which the satellite is divided betwixt 2 superpowers,” helium said.
Mr. Guterres added that helium is simply a “very beardown advocate” of the request for existent multipolarity successful the world.
For existent multipolarity, it is important for emerging economies to person a “higher and higher” relation and to found a “stronger and stronger” web of trade, technological and planetary practice relations.
In this regard, helium said the caller commercialized statement betwixt India and the European Union is simply a “good example”. “India is 1 of the astir applicable emerging economies,” helium said.
"We are seeing crossed the world, much and more, the instauration of a web of, I would say, each developed countries but also, and precise importantly, emerging economies creating a existent multipolarity without immoderate hegemony, and allowing, then, multilateral organisations to beryllium effective,” helium said. Emphasising the value of multipolarity, Mr. Guterres spoke astir his “frustration” implicit the nonaccomplishment of the UN Security Council to code conflicts and support planetary bid and security.
"When 1 looks astatine the UN, you tin ideate my vexation erstwhile I spot the Security Council incapable to instrumentality decisions, and it is wide that we request a cardinal betterment of the Security Council, archetypal of all, to correspond the satellite arsenic it is contiguous and not aft the Second World War. And second, to beryllium capable to instrumentality effectual decisions for bid and information astir the world,” helium said.
Mr. Guterres added that for a "fair" multilateral system, some successful the UN and planetary fiscal institutions, emerging economies request to person a stronger dependable and beryllium astatine the centre of this networking.
"I spot India successful the centre of those emerging economies, and this is thing I would beryllium delighted to sermon with Prime Minister Modi due to the fact that I person a batch of anticipation for the relation that India tin play successful shaping this multipolar world,” helium said.
At the Summit, Mr. Guterres volition beryllium joined by elder UN leaders, including UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and Under-Secretary-General and UN Secretary-General’s Envoy connected Technology Amandeep Singh Gill.
Mr. Guterres further underlined that “it is ever fantastic” to spell to India, “a ideology with an tremendous diverseness and bonzer civilisation and culture.” The UN main elaborated that helium is presently speechmaking astir however India, for centuries, has been the main origin of translation of the world, “starting hundreds of years earlier Christ and going connected for centuries, with an tremendous power of Indian culture, of Indian civilisation that we tin spot successful China, Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean."
"Even successful the clip of the Roman Empire, determination were precise beardown connections with India and a precise important power of Indian civilization successful what is contiguous the Mediterranean area. “So it is ever an tremendous pleasance to sojourn India,” Mr. Guterres said.
