(wind blowing)
OpenAI builds the world's largest data center, worth
$5 trillion. Their latest AI can, in one
hour, solve tasks that would take multiple days for a human.
Anthropic claims OpenAI's model is more capable of deceiving its
users. (electronic sound)
In the Ukraine conflict, we see a swarm of a hundred drones drop
explosives all at once, with no human pilot.
OpenAI's model is suspected to be behind the advances.
NSA ex-director Paul Nakasone demands more
compartmentalization and secrecy at the OpenAI
lab, but Sam Altman pushes back.
Discussion ensues. Under executive order, the NSA
mandates military security for all data centers above a
certain size. In secret, Sam Altman purchases a
biotech company and repurposes it to do gain-of-function
research. He hopes of getting US approval later.
At OpenAI, a Chinese spy is caught leaking the latest AI
models and research. OpenAI shuts down all offices,
moves researchers to a military fortress.
(wind blowing) (applause) A new
fundamental breakthrough is discovered by researchers.
It is announced to the public. AI companies' shares rise as a
result of this news. Three AI companies now control
one third of the US economy. In a bold test,
codenamed Operation Charlie, Sam Altman
demonstrates that he can use AI to pilot 75
fighter jets at once, with him being the only person
overseeing the operation. Altman insists he has critical
insights into the technology and how it will reshape national
security. Some military generals are amazed at the
advances, but others are suspicious because Altman lacks a
military background. A prolonged deadlock follows,
with military generals divided over how much influence Altman should
have over US military decisions. Secretly,
Altman asks the AI for advice on how to persuade the
military generals and on various other topics.
President Trump declares a US national emergency.
Trump says OpenAI discovered DNA sequences of
engineered bioweapons that could kill billions of people.
These DNA sequences have leaked to the public internet.
In his speech, Trump accuses Chinese AI labs of
leaking the information online. All biotech labs in the
US are ordered to halt all activity for 30 days
(wind blowing) During the emergency, the
US manufactures a billion micro-drones.
Each costs $100, amounting to a total cost of
$100 billion.
There are now more micro-drones than people in the United States.
OpenAI plans the first general-purpose robot factory.
Normally, robots manufacture a single item, like a
car or a spacecraft. These robots, however, could
manufacture any robot, which in turn manufacture items
of your interest. Trump approves of a special economic
zone where construction of this factory begins.
Adam Sachs is announced the Republican presidential candidate for the
upcoming US election. Sam Altman publicly declares
support for Sachs and starts a billion-dollar PAC to fund
him. Altman was actually Sachs' ex-boyfriend,
this is not known to the public. Altman reveals to Sachs that he
was the one who leaked the bioweapons to the internet.
Since Sachs is not willing to share this with the public, Sachs is
also now culpable
(wind blowing) The leader of opposition
accuses OpenAI of interfering in the election.
Mass protests heat up against AI in the capital.
A massive autonomous drone swarm is unleashed on the protest
for surveillance purposes. A few people turn violent out
of fear of the drones. The drones accurately identify and
arrest those who are responsible.
Some of the protest leaders are considered a threat to national
They are taken to a secret military camp and tortured.
Once they are killed, Altman insists that their bodies must be
frozen and preserved in a cryonics tank.
Once Altman builds superintelligence, he plans to upload
these people's brains in a computer, resurrect them there, and
torture them for millions of years inside a computer
simulation. Speculations of this leak to the press
chilling effect on further protests. No pun intended.
Sachs wins the election by a comfortable margin
(wind blowing)
OpenAI's entire alignment team resigns in protest.
They say they have evidence their AI has been making secret plans
no human knows about. They say they have been warning about this
for many months. Altman reminds them that resigning is not
possible because they have too much insider knowledge.
They can either stay quiet or go put themselves in a freezer.
Altman suspects the researchers may have a point, but is not willing to
admit it in public. He knows some of the researchers were
sympathetic to the opposition protests and is trying to fish out who
they are. Altman flies his jet to visit his general
purpose factories and confirm that the AI is not doing
anything suspicious. Until now, he had been relying heavily
on the ground reports of his employees and on camera feeds of
the factories.
(music) Altman's jet is shot down by a blinding blue light
emanating from the factory. The entire city sky stays
blue long after.
(musicPresident Sax sends a squadron of fighter jets and a battalion of tanks to visit the city. They too are shot down the exact same way. The blue light from the city is visible from a thousand kilometers away. Humanity has never seen a weapon like this. Global temperatures start dropping one degree every two hours. In 24 hours, global temperatures have dropped 12 degrees. Cities that were having summer are now having snowstorms. Millions of people freeze to death that night. Global economy halts. Drones and robots keep essential supply chains running in countries that have access to them. President Putin informs President Sax that he plans to drop a nuclear bomb on the site of the factory. Sax asks Putin to wait a few hours while he investigates the situation. Putin informs him that another 36 hours means another 18 degrees of global cooling, by which point he expects most of the Russian population to die. He is not willing to wait even an hour longer. (alarm blaring)
Sax sends drones to investigate the ruins of the city, but they do
not find anything out of the ordinary.
They only find the factory buildings and what is left of the equipment
inside. Meanwhile, global temperatures continue to
reduce. Nobody is able to identify the source of
cooling. Sulfur levels are elevated in the atmosphere,
but the source of the sulfur seems to be literally everywhere.
Sulfur-producing nano factories is our scientists' best
guess. They have no way to check this hypothesis,
as mass panic has set in and most of civilization has
collapsed. Robots construct mass graves, but there is
soon nobody left to visit them. In another four days,
humanity goes extinct. All biological life is
expected to go extinct soon after.