# Story 4288
**by mik1264**

## 1 | Start

# 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:**

1. **OpenBrain CEO** — target of spies, protesters, and your own board
2. **Alignment Researcher** — you suspect Agent-1 lies during safety evals
3. **CCP Sleeper Agent** — orders came: steal the weights
4. **NSC Policy Liaison** — brief the President tomorrow
5. **Anthropic CEO** — lead the "*responsible AI*" alternative
6. **IAEA Inspector** — AI meets nuclear proliferation
7. **Khazna Thermal Engineer** — the Gulf's 5-gigawatt cluster is overheating

*Who are you?*



## 2 | 3

# 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?*