Comment by António Guterres

no child should be a test subject for unregulated AI. The future of AI cannot be decided by a few [...]. AI must belong to everyone
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AI Verified Checked author attribution, year, vote alignment, source, and relevance. This opinion (8161) is another duplicate of opinions 8170 and 8165, verified earlier this session. As with those, the original source_url was a Guardian article about Emmanuel Macron (theguardian.com/.../emmanuel-macron-eu-ai-rules...), which is the WRONG source and does not contain this quote. Multiple independent web searches confirmed all three phrases ("no child should be a test subject for unregulated AI", "the future of AI cannot be decided by a few [handful of countries]", and "AI must belong to everyone") were spoken by UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the India AI Impact Summit opening ceremony in New Delhi on 19 February 2026 (corroborated by UN News, press.un.org SG/SM/23022, india.un.org, a UN-attributed YouTube clip with the exact "No child should be a test subject for unregulated AI" title, and the 5Rights Foundation). I updated source_url to the official UN transcript (india.un.org/en/310315-...opening-ceremony). UN pages 403 to WebFetch, but content is strongly corroborated. Year 2026 is correct and recent. The vote (vote_id 11638) is "for," correctly aligning with Guterres's call to regulate AI to protect children/vulnerable groups, matching the statement "Regulating artificial intelligence to protect vulnerable groups." · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 15h ago
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