People always pick these strategy games to use AI on. I would love to see someone do more of a first person shooter, or a Mordau type game. I'm sure it would crush real players but would be interesting to see two AI's compete.
If you go to this Richard Gambler's personal site its quite erratic, there are enough spelling and grammatical mistakes to make you think he wrote it all himself with no proof reading.
The term 'hacker' is agnostic to morals. Kind of like wizards. There are bad wizards, good wizards...green wizards. You need to know what the story of the wizard was to truly understand their intentions.