New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The most powerful man in the world spent Tuesday morning telling the United Nations he wanted nothing to do with global rules for artificial intelligence. By Wednesday afternoon, two of America's most powerful technology executives were inside the Security Council chamber asking the world for exactly that.

the president who governs the technology does not speak for the people who built it, and the people who built it are increasingly convinced the stakes are too high to leave that gap unaddressed.

Donald Trump addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and declared international oversight of artificial intelligence "a globalist scheme of control." He announced the United States government would henceforth replac...