In a city long defined by its divisions, an unlikely convergence between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon over artificial intelligence safety suggests that some technological anxieties transcend the usual fault lines of American politics. Their shared concern — that AI is advancing faster than the wisdom or structures meant to govern it — reflects a broader reckoning now arriving in Washington. The question is no longer whether AI warrants legislative attention, but whether the political will to act can survive the translation from shared alarm to shared law.