A) ASI is developed and massively overshadows the rest of the world economy
B) the world still has rule of law, contracts, business, well-developed finance, etc
You can get to a lot of weird conclusions if you assume both A and B, but I think the much more likely scenario is that if A happens, B stops being true in short order. If you are a company and you have ASI, you just stop caring about business and money and economics, and your outcomes instead start looking like "you conquer the world" or "you upload the board of directors to a fleet of von Neumann probes" or "you messed up, everyone dies". This is my social commentary on the "Permanent Upper Class" philosophical virus that has spread through San Francisco tech communities like the plague in the last year or so. You can read the original blog post [here].
While the game tells a grim story, my goal with this is to show how ridiculous this way of thinking is. I'm actually more optimistic that humans will find a way to prevent this future but if we don't then I suppose none of us will don top hats for eternity.
and links to https://www.jasonwu.ink/signals/2026-05-27-permanent-upper-c... We did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have these capabilities. Rather, they emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy. The same improvements that make the model substantially more effective at patching vulnerabilities also make it substantially more effective at exploiting them.
I've been assuming that Mythos is just a big jump in model size, and that's where the jump in capabilities comes from. Hence I expect OpenAI not to be able to catch up without scaling up the model and hence significantly raising the API prices.