19/02/2026
update from the today as world leaders gathered to share their reflections and visions. 3 key messages were:
- AI must work for everyone — across languages, regions, and generations. From protecting children to building digital skills, the Summit underscored that AI must be human‑centred, trustworthy, and grounded in shared core values.
- The call was clear: it’s time to move from action to impact. Open source models and applications, global technical standards, sustainable and accessible systems, and multilingual and contextual evaluations, policy clarity, and evidence‑based insights are essential to ensure AI becomes a bridge to opportunity, especially for the Global South.
- Progress requires all of us. The Summit reinforced that delivering responsible AI depends on working together — governments, industry, academia, innovators, and youth — with efficient rules, open collaboration, and commitments, like the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact commitments: a set of voluntary pledges made by leading international and domestic AI firms to promote inclusive and responsible AI, with a specific focus on the needs of the Global South.
Read our Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin's statement to the Leaders' Plenary here: https://www.itu.int/en/osg/Pages/Speeches.aspx?ItemID=80
She also joined UN principals present in Delhi to meet with the UN Country Team: The UN must work as one — simple, coherent, and coordinated — so countries can easily access the digital and AI expertise they need to turn their ambitions into real development results.
