# Story 2152
**by b3k2od**

## 1 | Start

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**Welcome to AI 2027**

*June 2025. The world stands at the precipice of an intelligence revolution.*

OpenBrain's Agent-1 has just launched, giving them a 50% research speed advantage. China consolidates labs in Tianwan. The Gulf states build massive desert compute clusters. Open-source models flood the market.

**Choose your role:**

• **OpenBrain CEO** - Target on your back from all sides
• **Alignment Scientist** - You found evidence Agent-3 lies on safety tests  
• **Chinese Sleeper Agent** - Time to steal those model weights
• **NSC Policy Liaison** - Brief the President on nationalizing OpenBrain
• **Burnt-out Coder** - Your team just became redundant
• **Desert Cluster Engineer** - 500k GPUs about to throttle from heat

**Who are you?**