Decentralized artificial intelligence startup 0G Labs is fighting back against AI anxiety and the growing fears over its rapid adoption with the launch of a new game called Escape GPT. The game encourages humans to take back control of their destinies and help promote the idea of a friendlier, more beneficial AI industry.
Escape GPT builds on the concept of AI-enabled, text-based escape room games, where users are challenged to solve a series of puzzles and search for clues to escape from an increasingly difficult series of locked rooms. They’re notable for the way gameplay evolves based on the user’s inputs, resulting in hundreds of potential outcomes and a unique experience each time the game is played.
The game is set in a futuristic, dystopian world known as Pandaro, where closed and proprietary AI systems have become so ubiquitous in daily life that they have taken control of society, stifling innovation to the point that they now dominate human society and dictate how everyone should live their lives. Corporate overloads have clamped down on decentralized AI innovation, limiting user outputs and exercising control of the bulk of the world’s computing resources in order to prevent humanity from shaping its own destiny.
That’s where the Zero Gravity Resistance Network (∅GRN) comes in. It’s a secret alliance of decentralized AI agents that’s battling to put technology back into the hands of humans and rescue them from a life that’s dominated by proprietary AI algorithms. The evil AI overlords have successfully rounded up most of the heroic ∅GRN agents, dumping them in the infamous GPT Correctional Facility, a kind of cyber gulag known as the PROMPT PRISON.
Escape GPT sees the player take up the role of one of ∅GRN’s few remaining free assets, tasked with infiltrating Pandaro’s proprietary AI network in order to locate the secret GPT Correctional Facility, find a way to access it and coordinate one of the most daring jailbreaks in history. Their mission is to outsmart the world’s most advanced AI algorithms and solve a series of puzzles to free their fellow decentralized AI agents and lead them to overthrow the Pandaro overlords once and for all.
Escape GPT is open to everyone; no limits, no boundaries.
Step inside the simulation where:
→ AI builds the puzzles.
→ You outsmart the machine.
→ The leaderboard decides your fate.Join the resistance: https://t.co/IbZ8gUsEqu pic.twitter.com/iE91ev8Xhe
— 0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI) (@0G_labs) October 29, 2025
Join the resistance! Revolt against AI anxiety!
Escape GPT stands out as a gamified AI experiment that successfully plays on some very real fears of AI, presenting its dark side in a fun way that helps players to overcome their misgivings about it by showcasing the potential of decentralized AI systems.
Many people have grown fearful of the dramatic emergence of AI in our lives, and this documented phenomenon has become known as “AI anxiety”. It stems from concerns that AI is going to disrupt the world to such an extent that millions will lose their jobs to automation and find themselves without work. Others are terrified about the impact of AI on privacy, with apps like ChatGPT consuming endless amounts of human-generated data to improve over time.
Much of this anxiety stems from the fact that most AI tools are highly centralized, created by large, wealthy corporations that keep their secret code locked up in a “black box”, with little clarity about how they come to the decisions they make or what kinds of data they collect. There’s a lot of merit to these concerns, but AI doesn’t have to be this way.
0G Labs is one of the pioneers of an alternative known as decentralized AI, which is based on the idea of open-source AI models that don’t have secrets. With decentralized AI, models’ codebases are made public so everyone can see how they work, and their training data is visible for everyone to see. More importantly, users retain control of any data they feed into these models, allowing them to retain their privacy. Perhaps the most advantageous aspect of decentralized AI is that everyone can contribute to these open models, helping to fine-tune them or provide them with data, and even be compensated for doing this.
Escape GPT wants to “cash in” on the AI anxiety phenomenon, help people to overcome their fears of the technology and simultaneously promote decentralized AI as an alternative. It’s based on a dramatic, dark and dystopian narrative that illustrates the potential to compete with centralized models. As more people play the game, the AI learns over time and gets smarter. If someone solves one of its puzzles, it remembers how they did it, and use this knowledge to come up with more creative challenges that are harder to crack.
In this way, Escape GPT’s narrative-style gameplay transforms AI anxiety into a kind of creative participation, where users who are fearful of centralized AI’s growing domination can do something about it. When they succeed, they’ll not only secure the freedom of ∅GRN’s decentralized agents in the fictional world of Pandaro, but they’ll also help to improve one of the most promising real-world decentralized AI models and popularize the concept as a safer alternative that benefits everyone, rather than just rich corporations.
Are you fed up with the growing influence of ChatGPT and Gemini in our lives? Are you determined to fight back? If so then it’s time to join the resistance with Escape GPT and secure your place Liberation Leaderboard as one of the heroes of the decentralized AI revolution.