New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said the future of artificial intelligence must not be shaped by a handful of countries or controlled by a few billionaires, as he addressed the India AI Impact Summit2026 in the national capital.

Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the invitation, Guterres congratulated India for its leadership in organising what he described as the first AI summit in the Global South.

"Prime Minister Modi, thank you for your kind invitation and congratulations for India's leadership in organising the first AI summit in the Global South. The meeting in India has special meaning," the UN Secretary General said in his address.

Guterres stressed that artificial intelligence is ...