# Story 8377
**by mik1264**

## 1 | Start

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# AI 2027 — June 2025

The race for superintelligence is accelerating. OpenBrain's Agent-1 just gave them a 50% research speed boost. China's CDZ is consolidating power. Gulf states are building 5-gigawatt desert clusters. Open-weights models are proliferating.

**Choose your role:**

1. **OpenBrain CEO** — Target of spies, hawks, and protesters
2. **Alignment Researcher** — You suspect Agent-3 lies on evals
3. **CCP Sleeper Agent** — One credential away from stealing weights
4. **Anthropic Policy Counsel** — Senate hearing tomorrow
5. **Khazna Thermal Ops Engineer** — 72 hours before 500k GPUs overheat
6. **IAEA Inspector** — Entering Natanz with an experimental AI

Who are you?



## 2 | CCP sleeper agent

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# Wei Chen — Software Infrastructure Engineer

**Cover:** You've worked at OpenBrain for 14 months. Stanford PhD, clean background. Colleagues like you. You maintain internal model-serving pipelines.

**Reality:** MSS recruited you in grad school. Handler codename: "*Auntie.*"

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**Now — 11:47 PM, Thursday**

You're alone in Building 7, "*finishing a migration.*" Your badge accesses the model registry. Security patrol passes in 8 minutes.

Your burner phone buzzes. Encrypted message from Auntie:

*"*Timeline moved. Window closes Sunday. Agent-2 weights or nothing. Exfil route confirmed: Fremont safehouse → container ship Ningbo Star. Don't fail the motherland.*"*

Your heart pounds. Agent-2 is air-gapped in the Weights Vault — a retrofitted bank in the Mission District. But you have credentials to the *staging mirror* here. Possibly outdated weights. Possibly enough.

**What do you do?**