120 questions drafted by an AI.
Scheduled by an annealer.
Land them.
The 120 questions in this dossier were drafted by an AI model. Their deployment — who asks, in which room, on which day — is treated as an optimization problem and "annealed" the way a quantum annealer would: maximize the journalistic energy released across four days while minimizing room clashes and overlaps. It is the one industrial problem an annealer truly solves at WTC: deciding which reporter puts the hard question to which Nobel laureate. The drafting is artificial, the scheduling is optimized — but which question to fire, and how to follow up, stays human judgment.
01 Entangled pairs
Teams of two. One asks from the floor, the other observes — films the reaction, logs the answer, assigns the energy. Swap each session. Every pair follows a trajectory across the arenas.
02 Energy released
Each question carries a potential energy. Landing it releases that energy to the pair. If the answer is newsworthy — an admission, a number, an evasion that is itself news — the +15 bonus fires.
03 Ground state
The conference cools day by day. The ground state is the configuration where nearly all high-priority energy has been captured. The thermometer up top measures how close you are.
Three tiers, so you don't waste shots on the wrong targets
Total energy on the floor: 0 points · 34 questions are in English (non-Italian speakers), 86 in Italian — each question keeps its original language so you ask a speaker in the language they'll answer in. Head to Pairs to deploy the teams, then run Optimize.
Entangled pairs
Two correlated reporters moving together. Name the pair, the two members and a colour — their signature across the whole floor.
Optimize · assign questions to pairs
A real simulated annealing pass chooses which questions to cover and with which pair, respecting daily capacity and Q&A scarcity per session, and avoiding a pair splitting across too many rooms. It starts hot, cools down, and settles into the minimum-energy configuration. Exactly D-Wave's spirit.
Deploy at least one pair, then run annealing to generate the trajectories.