so in one of the levels were in Webbs office and looking at clues to solve a combination lock. One of these clues is a painting depicting rokos basilisk. Now before I explain what rokos basilisk is if you have ocd or are easily scared by shit i wouldnt reccomend reading although i do think its a stupid idea now as someone with ocd i spent a few months genuinly terrified of this concept.
Rokos basilisk is basically a theory some weirdo from the less wrong (a cult like forum dedicated to rationalism, effective altruism and other intellectually narcissistic ideas) aswell as being full of ai obsessed tech bros) the theory is that an otherwise benevolent powerful ai would punish those who knew of its potential existence in the past but didnt help it by supporting ai research or spreding knowledge of its existence this would therefore encourage people to create this ai basically through time transcending blackmail. If it doesnt make any sense i understand its a completely stupid idea made through the mind of a deranged techbro but when this idea was posted to lesswrong there was a massive panic about it and the chief leader of the tech bro incels yudkowsky banned discussion of it cause they genuinly thought that anyone who knew of rokos basilisk would be at risk of being punished by it if it came to ever exist.
Their are some influential people who are influenced by lesswrong such as elon musk who met his ex partner grimes through shared knowledge of rokos basilisk and with the way elon says ai is dangerous despite contributing to the imrpovement of ai it wouldnt surprise me if he was genuinly being influenced by this.
And in the james bond game i think webb is elon musk in this scenario a billionaire effective altruist who believes that if he doesnt dedicate all his resources to building ai he will be punished by that ai if it manages to exist without his help. I think this adds layers to his motivation to cover up theias mistake other then just greed for money/power he genuinly could think if he doesnt his mind will be downloaded by an ai and tortured for millenium if he doesnt.
Its also possible that isolas client could be motivated by the same ideas but we know basically nothing about them so who knows lol but i think it would be cool if the next game focuses on this cause i think its a really interesting rabbit hole these loser tech bros came up with to scare themselves into licking ais boot.
Also I know a lot of this post was dedicated to just providing context for what i was actually trying to say about the game so sorry about that lol but im really interested in it and the less wrong cult in general so id just be really interested if these ideas would be explored further in the next game