Inside the United Nations Security Council, the architects of the world's most consequential technology made a rare and sobering appeal: that the power they have helped unleash may already be moving beyond any single institution's capacity to contain it. The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called on governments to assert democratic control over artificial intelligence before corporate momentum outpaces public accountability. Yet the very geopolitical rivalries that make global governance necessary — a US-China technological race, an American administration hostile to international oversight — ar