[catwhowalks]

I do not agree with what people are saying about Gai being underhanded. I do not think that is what is going on at all.

My understanding is that he genuinely believes that sapient AI is inherently dangerous and that sooner or later it will turn against humanity and destroy it. That talk about humanity going extinct is what he actually believes.

He's not trying to throw the contest but pushing the Humagears to turn into Maggia through his own people. Winning the contest is not his primary goal. It's just a means to an end. His primary goal is proving that Humagears are dangerous and must be destroyed and getting them to turn into Maggia, then destroying them before they can hurt anyone is just his way of trying to expose the danger.

The contest is just his way of taking over Hidden so he can shut down Humagear production, but it's just one means to his end. The contest just happens to provide two ways of getting at this at once and he's going to take full advantage of both. It's probably never even occurred to him that messing with the Humagear this way could be considered cheating, because he things that it's just natural for them to turn bad anyway.