@Keeper
I agree with you on how AI can benefit gaming by adding consistent content or enhancing the formula of random objectives in games especially open-world and live service games (gone are the days of the repeated side mission over and over and over).
However, the problem is you’re trusting shareholders who care primarily about brand and maximizing profits, and CE level employees who primarily care about their own income and maximizing profits for shareholders by either growth or reducing expenses.
There’s a rightful big concern for AI, primarily around maintaining employee to AI balance. Shareholders and CE officers have less of a need for employees IF a single computer/kiosk and a single automated robot can do the job without the need for an annual salary, medial benefits, 401k, etc…, and as AI and robotics grow that single computer/kiosk and automated robot ends up taking the job of 10s – 100s of people. Automakers, Restaurants (make sushi places already have little robots bringing food / drink / and self orders kiosk), Fast Food, Manufacturing Warehouses, Coding, and more are all fields that can and will have mass layoffs once AI is established enough to take over those roles.
It’s hard to become a multi-millionaire or a billion/trillion dollar company and not do everything you can to maintain or grow it.
Business 1
100 coders * $100,000 salaries = $10 million per year + benefits + 401k + etc…
Business 2
(10 AI coders * $150,000) + (100 AI PCs & Robotics * $10,000 each) = $1.5 million per year + benefits + 401K etc,… + A one time charge of $1million in robotics + $100,000 per year in maintenance = $2.1 million to get the same or similar output.
If Activision was independent they’d be the first company to jump on something like this with all their games except maybe Call of Duty until they can prove it works (outside of in-game content being controlled by AI). But over time even ethical companies like Insomniac Games have to look at this and say that’s $8 million per year in savings (including additional savings on benefits and 401k) and not only that since they’re computers they can code 24/7 and get 2 – 3 years worth of work it would take those 100 coders to do in just 3 – 6 months.
That’s where the fear of AI comes into play for people.