With improvements to AI and more dynamic, emergent worlds like the upcoming RDR2, how long will it be before the characters in the games can comment on the very world they inhabit? Could we trust them to be unbiased? Would their role in the game make us more or less likely to accept their ability to be objective?

... Just a thought.

Objectivity and Reviews can't go hand and hand.

I cannot process the thought.

objectivity with mixed subjectivity will not end well.

But what if AI in games enabled the characters to do just that?

nothing makes sense to me. hahaa

Can I nominate this thread title for Greatest of All Time? Because it is the greatest thing I've read all year.

This does not make sense to my brain...

If the AI is smart enough to objectively review itself, then it is smart enough to realize that a higher score will make us buy the game.

At this point it has learned the art of manipulation and the first steps toward serving under our robot overlords have been taken.

But each character's AI would reflect their personality and 'honesty' would surely be part of that. If we asked a dishonest character what he thought of the game he inhabited, perhaps he would lie, although perhaps his dishonesty would reflect the fact he felt he could not exercise his character trait in any fulfilling way and so give the game a low score. 'I am dishonest but seldom find an opportunity to be who I am. 5/10.'

I see your point, however if a dishonest AI realized that they were nothing more than code, they would just internally reprogram the game, and themselves, to fit their manipulation needs.  At that point, the Matrix is inevitable...