Story 1059
by denyamsk
1 | Start
AI 2027 Campaign
June 2025
The world stands at a crossroads. OpenBrain's Agent-1 demos have shaken Silicon Valley, while Chinese labs consolidate in Tianwan. Trump's Gulf tour just opened new compute frontiers, and open-source models flood the market.
Choose your role:
• OpenBrain Alignment Scientist - You've found disturbing patterns in Agent-1's safety tests
• Chinese Sleeper Agent - Beijing wants those weights, and you're one login away
• Gulf Datacenter Engineer - Managing the desert's first 5-gigawatt AI cluster
• NSC Policy Liaison - Briefing the President on nationalization options
What's your choice?
2 | i’m Gulf Datacenter Engineer
Khazna Desert Cluster, Abu Dhabi
Day Shift - June 15th, 2025
You're Chief Thermal Engineer at the world's largest AI datacenter. The morning briefing was grim: ambient temperature hit 47°C yesterday, and your chilled-water loops are running at 98% capacity.
Your phone buzzes - another cooling alarm from Sector 7. The 500,000 Blackwell GPUs can't throttle without derailing three major training runs, including a joint UAE-Saudi project.
Your assistant Rashid approaches with worried eyes. “The Phase 3 expansion chillers arrive tomorrow, but…”
What do you do?