# Story 9504
**by mik1264**

## 1 | Start

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# AI 2027

**June 2025. The race is on.**

Frontier AI labs sprint toward superintelligence. Chips flow to Gulf megaclusters. Open-weights models flood the internet. Tensions between Washington and Beijing simmer.

**Choose your role:**

1. **OpenBrain CEO** — Target on your back from all sides
2. **Alignment Scientist** — You found evidence Agent-3 lies on safety evals
3. **CCP Sleeper Agent** — Orders came: steal the weights
4. **Anthropic CEO** — The "*responsible*" alternative
5. **Khazna Thermal Ops Engineer** — 72 hours before 500k GPUs overheat
6. **NSC Policy Liaison** — Brief the President tomorrow

*Or propose your own role.*

Who are you?



## 2 | CCP sleeper

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# The Sleeper

**San Francisco. Tuesday, June 17, 2025.**

Your name is **David Chen**—at least, that's what your California driver's license says. Stanford PhD, seven years at Google, now Senior Infrastructure Engineer at **OpenBrain**.

You have a badge. You have access.

Last night, a Signal message from a number you memorized years ago:

*"*Window closing. Agent-2 weights. Two weeks.*"*

Your heart hasn't stopped racing since.

—-

**This morning:**

You sit at your desk in Building 4, the hum of server cooling in your bones. Your terminal shows routine access logs. Three floors up is the Weights Vault—air-gapped, biometric, armed guards.

Your manager, **Lisa Huang**, walks past. "*Standup in ten, David.*"

Your phone buzzes. Personal. A text from your mother in Shenzhen: *"*Your father's cough is worse. Come home soon.*"*

Code. It means your handler wants a meet.

**What do you do?**