A new advocacy group focused on building a left-right alliance to push for regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) rolled out a six-figure ad campaign Monday targeting the Washington area.

In a nod to the deep partisan divides it hopes to overcome, the two spots by the Alliance for Secure AI offer different messages for different audiences — at a time when AI regulation is one of the more contentious issues in the passage of Trump’s budget bill.

“What are the odds of killer robots annihilating humanity?” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asks Elon Musk in a clip from his podcast that airs on the right-targeted ad spot, which is running on Fox News and Newsmax.

“Likely 20 percent,” Musk responds, before a clip where Steve Bannon warns that for tech companies, “productivity” gains mean “human beings who are now tech workers eliminated.”

And in the left-of-center spot aimed at MSNBC and CNN, New York Times podcaster Ezra Klein warns that AI will be “the single most disruptive thing to hit labor markets — ever,” before cutting to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) saying “the job you have today ain’t going to be here in 10 or 15 years.”

The ads aim to add weight to a growing “strange bedfellows” left-right consensus worried about the risks of the American tech sector’s headlong rush toward ever-more-powerful AIs, founder and chief executive Brendan Steinhauser told The Hill.

Steinhauser, a Texas-based political consultant and former Tea Party organizer who ran Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) 2014 reelection campaign, told The Hill recent polling shows “the American people are........

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