While Washington and Beijing have long sparred over the hypothetical dangers of artificial intelligence yet to come, a quieter reckoning is being demanded: the harms are not approaching — they have already landed. Algorithmic bias, deepfakes, automated injustice, and AI-fueled disinformation are not warnings on the horizon but conditions already shaping millions of lives. The argument being advanced is that two rival superpowers, so consumed by the race to govern tomorrow's AI, have neglected the urgent work of repairing today's damage — and that this neglect, shared equally by both nations, m