What Dan Houser thinks about AI and jobs

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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31 Oct 2025

Our readingLanguage models will not replace good ideas, only the low-level work, so what they threaten is the ability to start a creative career rather than to have one.

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Their wordsThey’re not going to, they’re not going to replace good ideas. They can’t really come up with good new ideas. What they can do is do low-level stuff. So I think it’s going to be harder for people to start out in some of these spaces.

↗Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484youtube.com 7th of 22 in this recording