Bipartisan agreement on AI regulation is real and meaningless at the same time. The Future of Life Institute's optimism about cross-party support [16] reflects genuine polling data — Americans across party lines want oversight of AI. What that polling cannot capture is that "oversight" means industrial accountability to one legislator and content moderation to another. The word unites; the legislation divides. State-level bipartisan cooperation on data centers has produced action precisely because infrastructure siting is a concrete, local question with measurable consequences. Federal AI regulation has produced competing bills because…