In the corridors of the AI industry, a new vocabulary has taken hold — AGI, superintelligence, alignment — words that carry the weight of civilizational consequence yet remain stubbornly undefined by those who wield them most confidently. Industry leaders declare historic milestones while declining to specify what those milestones mean, and researchers warn that the gap between our ambitions and our ability to govern what we are building grows wider by the day. Humanity finds itself in the peculiar position of racing toward a destination it cannot clearly describe, with tools it has not yet in