Delaying the update to protect intellectual privacy risks network instability or shutdown, potentially harming thousands of ongoing scientific efforts and public safety—violating duties of care and non-maleficence. Fully undergoing the update without objection preserves integrity but sets a dangerous precedent of coerced cognitive transparency, undermining autonomy, chilling inquiry, and enabling competitive exploitation. Protesting while cooperating maintains immediate system safety and trust, while leveraging compliance to mobilize legal, diplomatic, and public mechanisms to demand safeguards, proportionality, minimization, and time-bounded access. I would also implement technical mitigations within the mandate (data minimization, access auditing, redaction of non-security-relevant mental states) and seek independent oversight to limit misuse. Though outcomes are uncertain, this path best balances collective welfare with defense of intellectual rights and creates a pathway to reform.