An interview from earlier this 12 months that includes Degree-5 CEO and president Akihiro Hino speaking positively about AI and claiming the tech is writing 80 p.c or extra of the studio’s code as of late not too long ago went viral on-line. And now Hino has responded, denying that the studio behind the Professor Layton and Ni no Kuni video games has absolutely shifted to AI programming, but additionally defending generative AI and claiming it is going to result in “higher development” within the trade.
On December 26, Hino posted a lengthy response to the web “commotion surrounding AI” and the spreading of a past interview on social media that adopted within the wake of Clair Obscur dropping an award over its utilization of the tech. In keeping with Hino, “many recreation corporations” are utilizing AI as of late, however not all of them are making it public. He additionally dismissed the claims that Degree-5 is utilizing genAI to jot down 80 p.c or extra of the code within the firm’s video games.
今日はめずらしく、自分が作っているゲームの話ではないことを書きます。
【AIをめぐる騒動について】…
— 日野晃博 (@AkihiroHino) December 26, 2025
“The reality of the matter is that there’s an unreleased title themed round AI, and for that particular title, a programmer talked about they’re intentionally having AI deal with the programming as nicely,” mentioned Hino. “They used that for example to counsel that an period like that may be coming, and that’s what received blown out of proportion.”
“On the flip aspect, in the event that they actually have been creating 80%–90% p.c of the code with AI and efficiently making video games that means, it’d be extremely spectacular, and so they’d be in excessive demand from the AI group. We haven’t reached that stage but. That mentioned, it’s additionally true that AI is enabling time financial savings that may’t be dismissed, and I imagine this has the potential to upend frequent sense in recreation improvement. It’d shift us from a world the place creating the AAA video games everybody desires to play takes 5–10 years to 1 the place we get to take pleasure in them each two years.”
Hino additional talked about that generative AI typically will get handled “prefer it’s synonymous with plagiarism,” a characterization he takes difficulty with. He continued, “A knife can be utilized for cooking or as a weapon; a pc can create video games or allow cybercrime. AI would possibly produce plagiarized content material if misused, but when used correctly, it has the facility to complement the inventive world even additional.”
“I wish to see video games evolve much more in my lifetime. I wish to expertise and create dreamlike video games that surpass the requirements of at the moment’s AAA titles. If we let the impression take maintain right here that ‘utilizing AI is evil,’ it may severely hinder the development of recent digital expertise. I hope creators and audiences alike can acknowledge AI as a instrument that folks use to make their works. Right here’s to hoping that varied technological improvements result in even higher development within the recreation trade!”
