A major AI lab admitted this week that the instrument it built to detect its most dangerous threshold has “saturated” — it can no longer measure new capability, just as acceleration begins. In this segment we look forward, calmly, at what it means when, for the most powerful technology we’ve ever built, our ability to measure starts falling behind our ability to make — and why building independent eyes on these systems, rather than trusting any single lab’s blurring gauge, may be one of the defining tasks of the coming decade.
