{"id":359914,"date":"2025-12-20T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359914\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:46:07","slug":"kojima-on-ai-we-cant-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359914\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojima On AI: &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Go Back&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-director Hideo Kojima has shared more thoughts on AI, this time saying he believes the technology is here to stay and &#8220;we can&#8217;t go back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/xtrend.nikkei.com\/atcl\/contents\/casestudy\/00012\/01783\/\" data-target=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nikkei Xtrend<\/a>, as translated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/action\/metal-gear-solid-and-death-stranding-creator-hideo-kojima-thinks-we-cant-go-back-to-a-world-without-ai-smartphones-were-the-same\/\" data-target=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GamesRadar<\/a>, Kojima said, &#8220;Now there are so many people who can&#8217;t live without their smartphones. AI is like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I think there isn&#8217;t any point in saying &#8216;We shouldn&#8217;t use AI&#8217; or &#8216;AI is useless.&#8217; We can&#8217;t go back. Smartphones were the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What Kojima is saying lines up somewhat with the thoughts that Kingdom Come boss Daniel Vavra recently expressed about AI. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanielVavra\/status\/2001337278229279169\" data-target=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He said<\/a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to face reality. AI is here to stay with us. As frightening as it may be, that&#8217;s the way it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also in the interview, Kojima said AI might lead to changes in how people communicate, specifically saying it could help people with social anxiety to communicate better in face-to-face scenarios. At the same time, Kojima said people should be mindful of how much they use AI.<\/p>\n<p>Before this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ai-should-be-embraced-not-feared-two-prominent-game-developers-say\/1100-6535479\/\" data-ref-id=\"1100-6535479\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kojima said people embrace, not fear, the further adoption of AI<\/a>. He said it can be helpful tool for handling repetitive tasks, allowing human creators to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/kojima-says-ai-could-shape-the-future-of-games-but-silent-hill-f-producer-strongly-disagrees\/1100-6535623\/\" data-ref-id=\"1100-6535623\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">focus on more imaginative work.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, not everyone agrees with Kojima, including a Silent Hill f producer who said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/kojima-says-ai-could-shape-the-future-of-games-but-silent-hill-f-producer-strongly-disagrees\/1100-6535623\/\" data-ref-id=\"1100-6535623\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI won&#8217;t be able to make &#8220;bold choices&#8221; that people can.<\/a> Lots of other people have also expressed a number of serious concerns about AI, including surrounding topics like job losses and the environmental impact of building out AI infrastructure, among other things. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/video-game-concept-artists-say-genai-isnt-making-things-easier\/1100-6537107\/\" data-ref-id=\"1100-6537107\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video game concept artists have said using generative AI does not make things easier.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baldur&#8217;s Gate and Divinity studio Larian recently caused a stir based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/baldurs-gate-divinity-dev-reveals-how-it-uses-generative-ai\/1100-6537001\/\" data-ref-id=\"1100-6537001\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CEO Swen Vincke&#8217;s comments about AI<\/a>. The executive said essential context was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/larian-ceo-says-a-lot-has-been-lost-in-translation-amid-divinitys-ai-blowback\/1100-6537085\/\" data-ref-id=\"1100-6537085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;lost in translation&#8221;<\/a> and that he will answer questions on the topic in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writer-director Hideo Kojima has shared more thoughts on AI, this time saying he believes the technology is here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-359914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}