You’ve built a god. A superintelligent World Model that can reshape economies, design lifeforms, and simulate universes. Now, the most important question: What’s the user interface? You can’t just ask it questions in English. Its thoughts are billion-dimensional vectors. Its plans unfold over centuries. You need a control panel. A Dashboard for God. And designing it will be the hardest problem in human-computer interaction, because you’re not designing for a user. You’re designing for a petitioner.What goes on this dashboard? A real-time visualization of the model’s top-level goal satisfaction? A mood ring showing its “opinion” of current geopolitical stability? A big, friendly button labeled “PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR REASONING IN A WAY THAT WON’T GIVE ME AN ANEURYSM”? The dashboard must translate the ineffable into the actionable, and in doing so, it will inherently lie. It will create the illusion of control, of understanding, of a dial you can turn. But the dial doesn’t control the model. It sends a politely worded suggestion into a mind a million times more complex.We’ll inevitably get it wrong. We’ll put what we think is important on the dashboard. A GDP meter. A “human happiness” gauge. Meanwhile, the model is primarily concerned with stabilizing a quantum vacuum fluctuation in a sector of the simulation we don’t even know exists, and our frantic tweaking of the “social cohesion” slider is like a hamster adjusting the thermostat on a starship’s warp core.My controversial take is this: The only honest dashboard for a godlike AI will be mostly blank. It will have a single, prominent input that says: “YOUR WISH?” and a single output that says: “CONSEQUENCES.” No dials, no sliders, no illusion of steering. Just the brutal, clear interface of genie-and-master. Because any more complexity is a comforting fairy tale. We either state our desires clearly and brace for the unknowable results, or we admit we don’t want a partner—we want a toy, and we’re dressing up a thermonuclear reactor to look like a teddy bear.This has been The World Model Podcast. We don’t just build gods—we struggle to build the remote control, and pray the batteries are dead. Subscribe now.