At a moment when the architects of artificial intelligence are themselves urging caution, President Trump has chosen acceleration — announcing an AI Force and a national tsar to champion the technology's growth without regulatory constraint. He frames the race for AI dominance as nothing less than the next Industrial Revolution, with American leadership over China as the animating purpose. Yet the very engineers building these systems warn of existential risks, security breaches, and the need for kill switches, creating a rare and consequential rift between those who hold political power and t