What the Rep. Fong hearing on PRC AI and autonomous technologies established institutionally is a frame for physical AI that is explicitly adversarial and national-security-coded. That frame is now available to anyone arguing for industrial policy, export controls, or domestic manufacturing investment — and it is equally available to anyone arguing that the same investment logic applies to worker displacement. The hearing did not resolve the tension between these readings; it handed both sides official language to cite. The community most likely to synthesize the two — Bluesky's AI-skeptic and…