‘Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’ translator says developers fired him to use AI

In the latest version of “AI comes for our jobs”, the English translator of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now claims that the game’s developers, Czech company Warhorse Studios, plan to replace all translation work with artificial intelligence, effectively making its work “obsolete.”

Max Hejtmánek, the game’s longtime English translator, took to Reddit earlier today to announce his firing in a post titled “Fired from Warhorse Studios and replaced by AI” in the subreddit r/kingdomcome. The subreddit’s moderators claim to have verified his identity, while an update to Hejtmánek’s account LinkedIn profile indicates that he no longer works for Warhorse.

The post begins with the concern that many people now share, especially in the creative industries: “Yesterday, March 27, 2026, without prior warning, I was invited to a meeting and was quickly told that, in an effort to “make the company more efficient” and “save finances,” starting next month my position within the company would be made “obsolete” in favor of using AI for all future translations.

According to Hejtmánek, he had been working at Warhorse Studios since 2022, where he did translations from Czech to English, and his dismissal is just the latest in a series of high-profile job losses that highlight the extent to which artificial intelligence has disrupted the creative industries.

This also raises important questions about AI’s foray into art, because while it is undoubtedly true that artificial intelligence can do translation work quickly and cheaply – just as it can quickly and cheaply create cartoons, action sequences, movie dialogue, etc. – it is also true that removing the human element from the work of art necessarily depreciates the final product and even calls into question the enterprise as a whole: if art is no longer a human project but a machine project, what purpose does it serve?

Hejtmánek alluded to this issue in his original post: “I want you to know that the growing use of AI is greatly affecting people in the video game industry and many others, and I thought you should know how much the company that makes the games you love values ​​the work of its employees, not to mention the environment.”

Today, one game’s translator has been replaced, but what’s next? The writer? Design artists? The voice actors? How many human roles can be lost to AI before the entire business is called into question? And, as Max points out, what does that say about a company so eager to replace its human workforce with an AI workforce?