At an AI summit convened this week, King Charles III placed himself among those sounding the oldest of human alarms: that power, once loosed, may outrun wisdom. Addressing executives from the companies shaping artificial intelligence's frontier, the monarch urged the industry to govern itself before the moment for governance passes. His warning was less a policy prescription than a moral reckoning — a reminder that the choices made now, in boardrooms and server farms, may determine what kind of future remains possible.