Submitted by QTR's Fringe FinanceArtificial intelligence is about to become one of the most consequential issues in the 2026 midterm elections.Maybe not immigration-level consequential or inflation-level consequential. But over the next two months, I think Americans are going to hear a lot more about a question that, until very recently, mostly belonged to Silicon Valley and a relatively small group of researchers: should the United States government force the development of frontier AI to slow down?That question exploded into the political mainstream today. My take is that we may only get one chance to stop AI before it gets out of…