Many pictured Kojima as a crusader against AI, yet the Death Stranding creator doesn’t see the technology as inherently harmful. He hasn’t confirmed using it, but he’s clear that AI can accelerate development — the real concern is when it undermines human work.

Plenty of artists still champion a hand-crafted approach to game making, and Hideo Kojima is one of them. Given his singular vision for the medium and storytelling, many assumed he’d lead the charge against generative AI in games. While he rejects the notion of AI as a replacement, he doesn’t dismiss its upsides.

As he’s been quoted in Wired, AI shouldn’t be used to “think” or supplant the human side of a project; it should be treated like a collaborator. The idea is to offload repetitive, time-sucking tasks to technology, speeding production and trimming costs without compromising a work’s artistic core.

In Kojima’s view, human–machine co-creation lets each contribute its strengths. He opposes putting AI at the helm of creation; the human team must stay center stage, using AI as support to free time and energy for innovation, narrative, and the experience you want players to feel.

Kojima Productions: Two Projects, Full Steam Ahead

The philosophy is mirrored in Kojima Productions’ slate. The studio is building Physint, which Kojima calls the culmination of his career — a bid to fuse cinema and video games into a singular experience. That said, it’s still far off: OD is slated to arrive first. And while Kojima has hung up his own boots on Death Stranding, he leaves the door open for a third entry led by someone else at the studio.

Bottom line: Kojima frames AI as a balanced ally — a tool to compress development timelines, not a stand-in for people — so creators can focus on what truly matters. We can’t say exactly how Kojima Productions will apply this in practice, but if and when it happens, Kojima has already signposted the approach.

Source: 3DJuegos