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Catherine Lewis

Helldivers 2 boss argues Arc Raiders' AI use "actually makes gaming better" and that "people jump to extreme takes" about the tech: "Surely there's a middle ground here"

Androids in Arc Raiders.

CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead, Shams Jorjani, has been speaking out about Arc Raiders' controversial use of AI, saying he believes it's "a very interesting use case that actually makes gaming better."

Speaking on a new episode of The Game Business Show (below), Jorjani says he finds that any talk related to AI in the games industry ends up falling into one of two extremes, where on one hand we see the likes of Square Enix proclaiming it wants to automate 70% of its QA testing and debugging, and on the other "we have developers who feel that their livelihood… the very fabric of their being is being threatened, and therefore all AI is bad AI." He questions: "Maybe, could it be, that reality is somewhere in the middle? Could it be?"

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