In a moment that may mark a turning point in humanity's relationship with its own creations, the leaders of two of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence companies appeared before the United Nations Security Council to ask for something unusual: to be governed. Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic argued that advanced AI has grown beyond the capacity of any single nation to oversee, and that without international frameworks, the systems being built today could outpace the institutions meant to hold them accountable. Their appeal — made in the chamber where wars and cri