At the close of the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton, party leader Ed Davey invoked the shadow of the atomic age to argue that humanity stands at a familiar crossroads — one where the power to reshape or end civilisation is again outpacing the wisdom to govern it. Proposing a global AI non-proliferation treaty and an international safety agency modelled on the IAEA, Davey challenged the assumption that transformative technology can be safely left to the ambitions of a handful of unelected billionaires. His call reflects a growing unease that the architecture of accountability built afte