‘Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO’ Director Kamiyama Kenji Built His New Series Around a Metaphor for AI Fears: ‘Will We End Up Being Used by It?’

Director Kamiyama Kenji, who made 'Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex' and 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,' has built his new 'Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO' around artificial intelligence as its central metaphor. Per Variety, the series frames its alien threat as a stand-in for humanity's uneasy relationship with AI. Kamiyama posed the essential question: 'Will we end up being used by it?' The anime explores this tension through giant-robot storytelling.

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