It is January 2024, and four labs race toward AI that can do AI research by itself. Play as a researcher, a research manager, a CEO or a government, and for 12 quarters, until the end of 2026, keep every lab from crossing into recursive self-improvement. Every lab has an ignition point you never see exactly, only an estimate with an error band, and a deceptive model looks safer than it is.
What you get
- Free, and plays in your browser on a computer or a phone.
- For 1 to 4 players, as a researcher, a research manager, a CEO or a government.
- Chapter 1 runs from January 2024 to the end of 2026, 12 quarters in all.
- Interpretability, faithful chain of thought and evals narrow the guess at each lab's ignition point.
- A story that branches on your decisions, with 18 fictional characters.
- Inspired by the AI 2027 scenario; every lab, person and event in it is fictional.
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