‘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?’

Kamiyama Kenji says the alien threat driving his new “Gundam” anime is a direct metaphor for humanity’s uneasy relationship with artificial intelligence. The director, known for “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” and “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” tells Variety he built “Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO” around that…