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Ahead of AI Summit, UN Chief Guterres Calls India ‘Very Successful' Emerging Economy, Calls Out ‘Total Hegemony'
UN Chief Antonio Guterres highlighted the summit as the first AI event in the Global South, emphasizing inclusive AI benefits beyond superpowers, and India's key role in a multipolar world.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised India as the right country to host the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, scheduled from February 16 to 20, and confirmed he will participate in New Delhi.
- Ahead of the summit, Guterres urged that AI must serve all humanity and emphasised that countries in the Global South must share in its benefits, warning against control by developed countries or two superpowers.
- Expected attendees include Emmanuel Macron, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Sundar Pichai, Shantanu Narayen, Dario Amodei, and senior UN leaders like Volker Turk and Amandeep Singh Gill, with themes of People, Planet, and Progress.
- Highlighting geopolitics, the UN chief said India must play a stronger role in global trade and cooperation, and called for reform of the UN Security Council to represent today’s world.
- Contextualising the summit, the UN chief said India sits at the centre of emerging economies and warned against AI being dominated by the United States and China, highlighting multipolarity's role.
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Indian Economy remains one of the fastest growing economies in the world and now UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has also said a big thing about it, who is coming to India to attend the AI Impact Summit.
India very successful emerging economy; right place to host AI summit: UN Chief Guterres
Mr. Guterres asserted it would be totally unacceptable that AI would be just a privilege of the most developed countries or a division only between tw... India very successful emerging economy; right place to host AI summit: UN Chief Guterres
AI Summit: India ‘very successful’ emerging economy: UN Chief Guterres
Mr. Guterres asserted “it would be totally unacceptable that AI would be just a privilege of the most developed countries or a division only between two superpowers”, an apparent reference to the U.S. and China
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