No Man's Sky Developers Found Themselves in Article about AI Stealing Jobs

The problem of AI replacing workers is as prominent as ever, and there are hardly any outlets that haven't covered it at least a little. Forbes is no exception, and its recent article called "Are Coders' Jobs At Risk? AI's Impact On The Future Of Programming" garnered extra attention, but for the wrong reasons.

The main image of the piece is subtitled "Developers photographed at their studio in Guildford, on December 12, 2013" and actually portrays the No Man's Sky creators, including Hello Games' co-founder Sean Murray.

Murray was evidently surprised to see himself in an AI-focused article: he went to X/Twitter to share a succinct "wtf."

No Man's Sky has been through thick and thin, its development stretching for years, but despite its procedural nature, I don't think Hello Games is involved with AI too closely, so I doubt coders there lose jobs because of machines. 

This is just a case of stock photo usage, so don't take it too seriously (but now I wonder how many actually well-known devs are out there decorating texts as random teams.)

With or without AI, Hello Games is busy working on its next game, Light No Fire. This ambitious multiplayer adventure is as grand as No Man's Sky, but Murray said he "learned his lesson" and won't oversell it ahead of time.

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