Hasbro CEO Reiterates That AI Isn't Used to Make D&D Because of the Game's Audience and Creators

Charlaquin · 2026-03-10T20:49:15+0000

HatWearingFool said:
New Scientist has a great article about AI rapidly being able to replace mathematicians and if that's a good a thing. Basically doing the work of proofs has a lot side benefits and what would it mean if AI does all the heavy lifting?

That sounds like a terrible thing, because a lot of major breakthroughs in the sciences have been results of developing new mathematics. If use of computers that only report information contained within their training data replace the process of mathematics, how are new mathematics ever going to be developed? And without that, the sciences become significantly stunted.

Charlaquin · 2026-03-10T20:52:38+0000

Clint_L said:
This tracks with my experience (from the study):

The fundamental issue is that AI can now do a whole lot of tasks better* than most humans (*depending on your definition of "better"). Certainly more efficiently (though many AI costs are currently hidden), particularly when it comes to tasks that do not require or even outright reject creativity (a whole lot of office work falls into this category). But even when it comes to work that traditionally took significant academic specialization, if all you are looking for is passable quality, which, let's face it, is already incentivized for economic reasons, then AI just makes more sense.

Thanks for your insight!

Clint_L said:
So why am I teaching students to write an essay? I want to say because my job is to help grow brains, not teach particular content. But then I start to sound a lot like the guy insisting that every kid should still study Latin. Because we have no idea where this is going, and it is happening so fast, educators are really flailing around right now.

Well, I certainly appreciate that you’re still teaching them that skill. Whatever anyone may think of AI itself, I think you’re very much correct that it’s too soon to know if that will continue to be a necessary skill in the future. And better to have the skill and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Charlaquin · 2026-03-10T20:56:56+0000

Artamo said:
As the parent of two kids who graduated during this whole era of COVID and the rise of AI, this whole post resonates for me. It’s particularly painful when you know a kid did the work on their own, and yet are being called out because someone independently says their writing “voice” flags as AI and then they have to somehow how defend their work.

I don’t know if semicolons and em dashes are still considered indicators of likely AI writing, but I know they were at one point and that frustrated the heck out of me as someone who uses both punctuation marks a lot and has no intention of changing that. And I’m not even writing in an academic context any more, I can only imagine that must be so much worse for people in schools right now.

Artamo · 2026-03-10T21:00:43+0000

Charlaquin said:
I don’t know if semicolons and em dashes are still considered indicators of likely AI writing, but I know they were at one point and that frustrated the heck out of me as someone who uses both punctuation marks a lot and has no intention of changing that. And I’m not even writing in an academic context any more, I can only imagine that must be so much worse for people in schools right now.

I’ve had this happen to me - someone asked me if I had used ChatGPT on a document because of the emdashes. Microsoft Word has for a long time autocorrected dashes to emdashes!

MoonSong · 2026-03-10T21:20:48+0000

Mournblade94 said:
SO they use it in toys because there is no one vocal about it. Sculptors used to be the ones that developed the toy ideas. Beware. Soon the community is going to relax on AI, there are already signs of it, and AI will be incorporated fully into D&D. Especially with the younger crowd growing with AI in their schooling. I haven't been to an education conference yet where they don't show you how to use AI in the classroom. These kids are not going to have the abhorrence Gen Z does for AI. I'm not that worried about AI in D&D, myself I can take it or leave it, but I speculate the bulwark against AI is going to lose.

Its already being accepted on a large scale.

I keep this fantasy where, after more and more studies come forward, people start suing colleges and schools for subjecting them to AI and making them dumber. And then we all are left alone by the AI peddlers.

Scribe · 2026-03-10T21:55:21+0000

MoonSong said:
I keep this fantasy where, after more and more studies come forward, people start suing colleges and schools for subjecting them to AI and making them dumber. And then we all are left alone by the AI peddlers.

I mean once I start seeing lawsuits successfully put against all the social media companies for the damage done over the last 15 or so years, maybe I'll have faith that such a path could be followed against the AI billionaires.

Charlaquin · 2026-03-10T22:44:40+0000

MoonSong said:
I keep this fantasy where, after more and more studies come forward, people start suing colleges and schools for subjecting them to AI and making them dumber. And then we all are left alone by the AI peddlers.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-10T22:56:04+0000

Scribe said:
I mean once I start seeing lawsuits successfully put against all the social media companies for the damage done over the last 15 or so years, maybe I'll have faith that such a path could be followed against the AI billionaires.

It's getting closer, since they're not trying to do so on Section 230 content grounds, but about creating an intentionally addictive product for young people.

Given that countries around the world are moving to ban social media for anyone under 16, I think it's certainly possible that social media is on the way out.

Charlaquin · 2026-03-10T23:18:15+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Given that countries around the world are moving to ban social media for anyone under 16, I think it's certainly possible that social media is on the way out.

Oh lord, I hope so!

MoonSong · 2026-03-10T23:19:28+0000

Scribe said:
I mean once I start seeing lawsuits successfully put against all the social media companies for the damage done over the last 15 or so years, maybe I'll have faith that such a path could be followed against the AI billionaires.

That's the beauty of it. The lawsuit targets wouldn't be huge companies with cash to burn. It would be underfunded school districts and no-name colleges.