United Nations, February 17 – Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is traveling to New Delhi to participate in the India AI Impact Summit 2026, where he will advocate for making artificial intelligence more inclusive and ensuring that the world understands its risks, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.
Guterres is scheduled to speak at the opening session, where several world leaders and 35,000 people from over 100 countries have registered to participate.
Twenty prime ministers or presidents are attending the summit, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez Perez-Castejon, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Guterres has praised India's initiative to organize the summit.
"I commend India for taking the lead in these summits," he said at a press conference last month.
Dujarric said that at the summit, Guterres' "goal is to ensure that the international community fully understands the potential and risks of AI, and that everyone has a voice in guiding policy, that it not just be left to a few governments or a few countries and a few companies."
"Our lives will be affected by the development of AI, and we need to ensure that everyone has a say and that decisions are based on facts and science," he added.
Dujarric said that while in New Delhi, the Secretary-General will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu.
He will also speak with international leaders at the summit, as well as leading tech figures and members of the International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence that he established last month.
