Ok, technically correct, with regard to my second sentence that you quoted but this conversation and most current conversations about Al are political.This is incorrect.
As an example - back in grad school, one of the thesis topics I almost took up was using what we'd now call "AI" to simulate high-energy particle physics data to use it to tune detectors and data analysis programs at particle accelerators. Nothing political about it.
The currently discussed uses of "AI" are political, but not all uses are.
One could say that there are two conversations, one relating to data ownership. A conversation that I believe we (as in society) should have had years ago when "Big Data" and algorithm driven commerce emerged years ago. To an extent some of the conversation about who owns the training data is related to that.
The other conversation is what the proper response is to social and economic dislocation driven by rapid adoption of automation. With the potential for another conversation about what is human social worth in a post scarcity society where all significant economic activity is carried out by artificial agents.
All of these conversations are profoundly political.