Could AI destroy video games?

The year is 2024 and the tech bros have poisoned the term “AI”, even in video games – a medium where artificial intelligence is used as a shorthand for how non-player characters interact with their virtual worlds. If you play a shooting game and the enemy flanks or flushes you out of cover using grenades, that’s AI. If an NPC grabs a drink from a street vendor and chugs it while walking down the sidewalk in GTA, that’s AI. And since we live in Hell World, if you see a photo of a person with six fingers, that’s also AI. Some articles on the internet are even AI! Not this one, though. I know which squares the motorcycle is in, bossman, and I never include the rider! I’m a real boy! If I had hair, my mum would tussle it. Promise. You could even say algorithms are AI, and game developers use them for everything. Procedurally generated worlds are spat out by computers, created by conditions dictated by the talented artists, developers, and sound engineers who make the building blocks. The waters have become so mu