A new UN panel on artificial intelligence aims to “make human control a technical reality”, the global body’s chief said Friday as leaders at a New Delhi summit weighed their message on the future of the divisive technology. “We are barreling into the unknown,” UN chief Antonio Guterres told the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, which wraps up later Friday. More facts and evidence.”The United Nations General Assembly has confirmed 40 members for a new group called the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, he said. The advisory body -- aiming to be to AI what the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to global warming -- was created in August. Discussions at the Delhi summit, attended by tens of thousands from across the AI industry, have covered big topics from child protections to the need for more equal access to AI tools worldwide.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 20, 2026 11:35 UTC