In Washington, an unlikely alliance between ideological opposites signals that the question of artificial intelligence and human welfare has begun to transcend the familiar boundaries of American political life. Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon stood together at the Pro-Human Assembly to argue that the companies building transformative AI cannot be trusted to govern themselves — a conviction now shared by a bipartisan coalition in Congress. Yet the effort unfolds against a countervailing force: a president who dismisses AI safety concerns as a hoax, even as polls show most Americans fear the te