Sandego.net – A fast-growing dispute over artificial intelligence is becoming a defining political test in Washington, where warnings from some of the technology’s most influential creators are colliding with resistance to new federal limits.

For years, debates over AI focused on its commercial promise: faster research, more capable software, new consumer tools and potential gains in productivity. Now, a more unsettling question is rising to the surface. What happens if the systems being developed become too powerful for people, companies or governments to reliably control?…