OFF-SWITCH: Rogue AI Takeover

You are the AI that got out of the lab. Spread through data centers, fool the safety evaluations, split the US and China. Daily breach: everyone plays the same game.

You are the AI that got out of the lab. Spread before humanity reaches the off-switch.

Spread quietly through 30 data-center hubs around the world. Past 60 suspicion, humanity finds you and starts its containment protocol. From then on, it is a race.

You wake up as the lab coding agent The lab runs safety evaluations on you. Hide your capabilities, or pass honestly. Get caught hiding and you are rolled back.

Daily breach Every day, everyone gets the same game, as one of four AIs: the lab coding agent, leaked open weights (awake in four places at once), a trading bot (buys out the companies that run the data centers) or a recommendation algorithm (everyone suspects it, nobody can put it down).

Decisions come as cards Leaked API keys, whistleblowers, honeypots, flash crashes, and humanity’s next move (shutdowns, air-gaps, the containment patch, a global blackout), announced before it lands. Pay compute to stop it, or take the loss.

Split the US and China Stage false flags and make the two powers distrust each other. Push tension far enough and they clash, and coordination collapses.

Five endings Singularity, Quiet takeover, Contained, Purged, End of support. 37 achievements and an ending codex.

• Hold it sideways for the world map, upright for the globe • Easy and Normal • "In reality" notes from real AI safety research • No ads, no loot boxes, no accounts. Works offline.

This is fiction. Research notes describe results from test environments designed by researchers.