Bill Gates drops out of landmark India AI summit amid criticism over Epstein [View all]

Bill Gates will no longer deliver his keynote address at India’s flagship artificial intelligence summit, the Gates Foundation said on Thursday.

The decision comes amid criticism over Mr Gates’s past association with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Mr Gates was invited as a keynote speaker at the AI Impact Summit, billed as the first such global gathering to be hosted in the developing world. He was among tech giants like Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai, as well as 20 heads of states, invited to be a part of the summit.

However, prime minister Narendra Modi’s government was receiving flak from opposition political parties for including Mr Gates, whose name featured in the latest batch of Epstein files released in January.

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