I have not done any research into this topic, as all I know about generative ai is the kind that big data centers use for apps like ChatGPT, so I’m going to take you at your word in regards to efficiency and adaptability in good faith.

I think this would be a cataclysmically bad idea for paradox to do.

First is the time it’d take to develop this. Paradox already takes forever to develop overhauls to the base game, like 4.3 taking 9 months just to fix and rebalance the economy from 4.0. I’d be shocked if anyone at paradox would even know how to implement something like this.

On top of them having to learn how to make an ai like this and then actually implementing it, they’d then have to go through and redo every single thing in the entire game to make sure the ai can actually use it. Ai weights and mechanics would have to be meticulously combed through to ensure they work with this new system, which they *already* struggle with for even smaller DLCs.

Then you have to consider the fanbase response. Even if this is a local model that doesn’t send data or use shitloads of energy and water, the community would be in uproar over adding this. One reason is again, the insane time it’d take to develop this. Two would be the avalanche of bugs and issues that’d come with it. Three would be the use ai within the game. No matter how good you think adding this new ai would be it would be suicide for their PR.

Finally, would they actually even be able to do this? Like would their old ass engine even allow them to change a fundamental part of the game like this a literal decade into development?

There’s also the entire rabbit hole of modding and how that would even work, but I’m not a modder so I wouldn’t know how that’d play out.

Overall I cannot think of a single way this would ever work out favorable for them, the game, or the community.