No Man's Sky Devs 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.”