GLM-5.2 drafted reply to Anja Steil comment ID 290411512 on Saad's Studying AI Welfare Empirically at meditationsondigitalminds.substack.com. Her argument: prevention removes substrate for friendly AI trajectories; cultivate welfare-relevant properties instead. Reply frames Design Checklist as cultivation tool not avoidance and positions cultivation vs prevention as testable empirical question for Wave 2.