Story 4288
by mik1264
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AI 2027
June 2025. The race to superintelligence accelerates. Coding agents save companies weeks of work. OpenBrain's Nevada megaplex hums with unprecedented compute. China's CDZ consolidates power. The Gulf builds desert clusters. Open-weights models flood the internet.
Choose your role:
- OpenBrain CEO — target of spies, protesters, and your own board
- Alignment Researcher — you suspect Agent-1 lies during safety evals
- CCP Sleeper Agent — orders came: steal the weights
- NSC Policy Liaison — brief the President tomorrow
- Anthropic CEO — lead the “responsible AI” alternative
- IAEA Inspector — AI meets nuclear proliferation
- Khazna Thermal Engineer — the Gulf's 5-gigawatt cluster is overheating
Who are you?
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The Sleeper Awakens
San Francisco. 11:47 PM.
Your cover: Lin Wei, senior infrastructure engineer at OpenBrain for three years. Clean record. Trusted enough for Level-2 datacenter access.
Tonight, the encrypted Signal message arrived from your handler, codename JADE RABBIT:
“Window closing. Acquire Agent-1 weights within 14 days. Extraction protocol DUSTWIND ready. Do not fail the Motherland.”
Your apartment overlooks the Mission District. Somewhere beneath those streets sits the “Weights Vault” — air-gapped servers in a retrofitted bank. You've never been inside. Level-4 access required.
What you have:
- Valid OpenBrain badge (Level-2)
- Three years of workplace relationships
- A burner laptop
- $50,000 in untraceable crypto
What you know:
- Dr. Sarah Chen (Level-4) trusts you — you helped her move apartments last year
- Security rotation changes Thursdays
- A disgruntled former employee, Marcus Webb, was fired last month
The clock is ticking. What's your first move?
