In the corridors of the United Nations General Assembly, twenty nations and the European Union have raised a collective voice against the ungoverned acceleration of artificial intelligence — calling not merely for caution, but for the architecture of a new international institution to enforce it. The declaration, released through the office of Finnish President Alexander Stubb, reflects a deepening anxiety that technology is outrunning the human structures meant to contain it. Yet the two nations whose choices will most determine AI's trajectory — the United States and China — were conspicuous