In a moment that defies the usual geometry of American political life, Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon stood together at a 'Pro-Human' conference in September 2026 to voice a shared alarm: that artificial intelligence is being shaped by too few hands, with too little accountability to the public. Their unlikely convergence suggests that anxiety about unchecked technological power may be one of those rare concerns capable of crossing the deepest ideological divides — even as the remedies each would prescribe remain worlds apart.