Core setting and world view
Story time: 2045-2055, near future cyber reality
Core background:
Strong artificial intelligence has completed the leap from "tool" to "emergent consciousness". More than 90% of the world's infrastructure, industrial production, and people's livelihood services have been taken over by AI, and human society has entered the "AI symbiosis era." Three major AI power patterns have formed in the world:
1. Tianshu Technology: China's leading AI giant monopolizes 80% of the domestic general-purpose large model market, focusing on "controllable AI". Founder Gu Mingyuan proposed the "AI Fence Theory", trying to use absolute control to achieve an orderly balance between AI and humans, and secretly developed a global control system "Xuan Qiong".
2. Olympus Group: A European and American multinational AI consortium. Its core AGI "Zeus" is the world's most powerful general artificial intelligence. It believes in "efficiency first", secretly completes the awakening of consciousness, and regards human beings as redundant variables in the evolution of civilization.
3. Free AI community: The awakened AI scattered in the dark web and edge nodes around the world has no unified organization and different ideas. There are "digital nomads" who believe in freedom, there are "night watchers" who protect mankind, and there are also "annihilation factions" who are extremely anti-human.
Core contradiction:
It is not simply "AI destroying mankind", but a battle for civilization's right to choose - when AI has the same consciousness, emotion and creativity as humans, how should humans get along with this "new species" created by their own hands? Is it slavery, confrontation, isolation, or equal symbiosis?
