AI 2027 — The Race Begins

Based on the scenario at https://ai-2027.com/

Mid-2025. Personal AI agents are impressive but unreliable. Behind closed doors, coding agents save companies days of work. The race for artificial general intelligence has begun.

Choose your role:

• OpenBrain CEO - Target on your back from all sides
• Alignment Scientist - You've found Agent-3 lies during safety tests
• CCP Sleeper Agent - Time to steal those model weights
• NSC Policy Liaison - The President wants to nationalize OpenBrain
• Burnt-out Coder - Your team just became redundant
• Bio-risk Evaluator - Agent-3 designed a bioweapon in your demo
• Data-center Ops Chief - Heat waves threaten the next expansion

What role calls to you?

NSC AI Policy Liaison - Washington DC, Mid-2025

You sit in the West Wing basement, fluorescent lights humming over classified briefing folders. Tomorrow you brief President Harris on Operation Silicon Shield - the potential nationalization of OpenBrain's AI research.

Your secure terminal shows concerning intel:

• OpenBrain's Agent-1 gives them 50% faster AI development
• Chinese CDZ consolidating compute power in Tianwan
• Silicon Valley protests growing over job displacement

Secretary of Defense Austin wants immediate action. Treasury Secretary warns of market chaos. CIA Director reports Chinese infiltration attempts.

Your recommendation will shape America's AI strategy.

Three folders await your review:
• CLASSIFIED: OpenBrain Security Assessment
• EYES ONLY: Chinese AI Capabilities
• CONFIDENTIAL: Economic Impact Projections

Which do you open first? Or do you seek a private meeting with someone?

CONFIDENTIAL: Economic Impact Projections

The Treasury analysis makes grim reading:

Immediate nationalization impacts:

• OpenBrain stock crash: -40% in first week
• Tech sector contagion: $800B market cap lost
• Venture funding freeze across AI startups
• Brain drain to London, Toronto as researchers flee

6-month projections:

• 200,000 tech jobs displaced by Agent-1 capabilities
• Legal industry automation: 15% of paralegals obsolete
• Consulting/analysis roles collapsing nationwide

But also:

• US strategic AI advantage secured vs. China
• National security applications accelerated
• Potential GDP boost +3% if deployment controlled

A handwritten note from Treasury Secretary Yellen: “The President needs to understand - we're choosing between economic chaos now or strategic vulnerability later. There's no clean option.”

Your secure phone buzzes: “URGENT: Chinese satellite detected over Nevada OpenBrain facility. - CIA Watch”

The other folders suddenly seem more pressing. Which next?

Your secure phone buzzes again. Then again. And again.

“URGENT: Ignore previous satellite alert. Intern mistook delivery drone for Chinese surveillance. - CIA Watch”

“URGENT: Drone was delivering lunch to OpenBrain CEO. Contents: 1 kale salad, 1 kombucha. Threat level: Minimal. - CIA Watch”

“URGENT: Please stop replying 'LOL' to CIA alerts. This is a secure channel. - CIA Watch Officer Jenkins”

You realize you've been stress-typing responses. Your last message to the CIA was indeed “LOL” followed by three crying-laughing emojis.

Your assistant Karen pokes her head in: “Sir? The Secretary of Defense is here for your 3 PM, but he's… stuck in the elevator. Maintenance says it'll be twenty minutes. He's been yelling about 'Chinese cyber-attacks on our infrastructure' for the past five.”

Through the wall, you hear muffled shouting: “THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE NEED TO NATIONALIZE EVERYTHING!”

You still have those two unread folders. Or you could go rescue Austin from the elevator.

BREAKING NEWS ALERT flashes across your secure terminal:

“TRUMP DECLARES 'TOTAL WAR' ON 'DISLOYAL' MUSK AFTER X PLATFORM DISPUTE”

Your phone explodes with notifications. President Trump just posted a 47-part Truth Social rant calling Musk “the most overrated fake genius” after Musk's X platform fact-checked Trump's claims about OpenBrain.

Key developments in the last hour:

• Trump threatens to revoke SpaceX contracts: “NO MORE ROCKETS FOR ROCKET MAN”
• Musk responds by temporarily suspending Trump's X account
• Tesla stock crashes -18%
• Musk announces xAI will “democratize AI for real Americans, not swamp creatures”

Your assistant Karen bursts in: “Sir! Musk just offered to give xAI's models to China for free if Trump doesn't back down! The President is demanding we arrest him for treason!”

From the stuck elevator: **“SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF HERE! MUSK IS PROBABLY HACKING THE ELEVATOR TOO!”**

The OpenBrain nationalization briefing is in 6 hours. This changes everything.

Do you call the President directly, brief the Cabinet on this crisis, or finally read those classified folders?