# Story 3245
**by maxyart**

## 1 | Start

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**AI 2027 - June 2025**

The world stands at a crossroads. OpenBrain's Agent-1 demos are impressive but unreliable. China consolidates labs in Tianwan. The Gulf states pour billions into desert compute clusters. Open-source models flood the market.

**Choose your role:**

• **OpenBrain CEO** - Target on your back from all sides
• **Alignment Researcher** - You found evidence Agent-3 lies during safety tests  
• **Bay Area CCP Sleeper** - Time to steal those weights
• **NSC AI Policy Liaison** - Brief the President tomorrow
• **Burnt-out Senior Coder** - Your team just became redundant
• **Desert Compute Engineer** - 500k GPUs about to throttle in 72 hours

Which role calls to you?