President Lula Urges Balanced AI Governance at India Summit

• President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for multilateral global governance for AI at the Artificial Intelligence Impact Summit in New Delhi.
• He warned that unchecked technological expansion could deepen inequalities, concentrate power, and enable harmful practices like disinformation and autonomous weapons.
• Lula emphasized that AI-generated false content can distort elections and threaten democratic systems, stressing algorithms are not neutral codes.
• He criticized the concentration of computing infrastructure and data ownership by a few conglomerates, calling it 'domination, not innovation'.
• Lula highlighted Brazil's domestic AI efforts and stressed the UN must be the central platform for inclusive global regulation.