If there was a James Bond film in 2025:

The villain would be an American populist and divisive former Tony Stark style billionaire who runs for president to steer US back to its previous hegemony but wait! it’s a misdirection and is actually bankrolled as a Manchurian Candidate for a mysterious Chinese hedge fund that no one has heard of that actually has recently trained an AGI level model on significantly less GPUs than everyone thought was required but has kept it a secret for the past year or so - which is run by a gender fluid Taiwanese megalomaniac who used to run a startup accelerator but since has become disillusioned with EA and gone full authoritarian and is planning to use the AGI model to retake all of the world starting with Taiwan and now Bond must stop them somehow

Alright -- I got really into this idea yesterday (it's not a Bond film anymore) but, I did end up writing a 15-page 8-episode TV series outline for a film that takes place in the near future, would go something like this:

A potentially AGI model emerges from a mysterious Chinese Hedge fund right as a populist billionaire AI first candidate runs for president that promises AI prosperity. Around the same time -- at a San Francisco AI lab, an AI researcher whistleblower at the populist billionaire's company 'commits suicide', leaving our protagonist one final message to look into her death. This is the thread that our protagonist tugs on to slowly start unraveling something much bigger than meets the eye...

I feel like the tag line for the tv-series / book should be something like:
- "When the reflection demands a painter -- who holds the brush?"
- "What happens when the mirror asks, how it should look?"

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Fascinating premise for a sci-fi series! The intricate web of AI, politics, and mystery promises an engaging and thought-provoking story.