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AI Hegemony

Guide a nation through a 22-turn AI race by funding research, deploying chips, choosing policies, and managing alignment risk.

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AI Hegemony

Five pressures across 22 turns

Choose the United States, China, or European Union, then guide that bloc through a 22-turn technology race. Research capability, economic strength, influence, public trust, and alignment risk all respond to the same limited pool of decisions.

The interface previews consequences before the turn advances. Increasing basic-research funding on the opening United States turn reduced the remaining budget and raised the alignment-risk forecast, exposing the central tradeoff immediately.

Budget before bravado

Split funding among basic research, applied research, alignment work, and talent. A faster capability push can improve competitive position, but safety investment, chip policy, and domestic stability determine whether that lead remains manageable.

Check every forecast after moving a slider. The useful question is not simply which category produces the largest number, but which allocation leaves enough room for a crisis or policy decision later in the turn.

Policies, crises, and scenarios

Policy cards, chip controls, alliances, and crisis choices widen the simulation beyond research spending. Seven scenarios and three difficulty levels change the pressure around the same strategic systems, while the Reality Check material connects the fictional model to real policy questions.

The creator reports AI assistance across code, graphics, sounds, and text without naming a product. That development disclosure is separate from the rival bloc's simulated decisions; the page does not establish that a generative model runs the opponent during play.

Guide

Nation: Choose the United States, China, or European Union
Budget: Allocate each turn across basic research, applied research, alignment, and talent
Policy: Play policy cards and respond to crises before ending the turn
Chips: Use controls and deployment choices to shape capability and influence
Goal: Finish ahead without letting alignment risk or national stability collapse

Creator's description

Raising basic-research funding immediately reduced the remaining budget and increased the forecast alignment risk, making the central speed-versus-safety tradeoff visible on turn one.