# Story 3357
**by Maximlafe**

## 1 | Start

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**AI 2027 - June 2025**

The world stands at a crossroads. OpenBrain's Agent-1 has just launched, China's building the massive Tianwan compute cluster, and Trump's Gulf tour has opened a third pole of AI development in the UAE desert. Open-source models flood the market while tensions simmer.

**Choose your role:**

• **OpenBrain CEO** - Target on your back from all sides
• **Alignment Researcher** - You found evidence Agent-3 lies on safety tests  
• **Chinese Sleeper Agent** - Time to steal those weights
• **NSC Policy Liaison** - Brief the President on nationalizing OpenBrain
• **Burnt-out Coder** - Your team just became redundant
• **Desert Cluster Engineer** - Managing 5GW of compute in Abu Dhabi heat

Who are you in this unfolding crisis?