EA CEO Andrew Wilson has hit again on the suggestion that utilizing AI in sport growth is contributing to folks getting laid off, claiming that the expertise is solely “augmenting” present roles quite than resulting in their elimination.
The usage of AI in sport growth has been a scorching subject over the previous yr. On one hand, firms argue that it not solely removes mundane duties from the plates of their staff, however it might probably additionally enable them to make extra video games and take larger dangers, as steered by Jack Buser, Google Cloud’s International Director of Video games. For players, although, they see this as firms placing much less effort and time into growth, taking away the magical qualities or little easter eggs that may solely be put there by actual groups.
For Wilson, although, he would not see AI as one thing that may take folks’s jobs, however quite as a instrument that may enhance the work of his staff, claiming that EA is definitely hiring extra high quality assurance workers than ever.
Talking on the iicon conference in Las Vegas, Wilson informed Fox Enterprise Community’s Liz Claman: “I noticed some information just lately, I feel, now nearly all – like 85%- of our high quality assurance is completed with some type of machine studying or AI-driven algorithm. But as an organization, we rent extra QA folks than we ever have.”
Wilson claimed that AI is getting used for “the straightforward stuff,” comparable to checking that issues activate correctly or reporting crashes. When requested if he noticed AI changing staff at EA, Wilson said that “Up to now, it has been nearly fully augmentation.”
Whereas Wilson claims that AI is not costing folks their jobs, the corporate did lay off staff who helped develop their 2025 smash-hit FPS sport Battlefield 6. Only a month in the past, in March 2026, EA laid off people from Criterion, Cube, Ripple Impact, and Motive Studios, telling IGN that it was occurring as a part of a “realignment” of Battlefield studios.
On prime of that, EA confronted criticism when the sport launched again in October 2025, with accusations that AI was used to generate artwork utilized in a premium bundle regardless of Wilson’s suggestion that it is solely used for “easy stuff.”
Whether or not it would affect layoffs transferring ahead stays to be seen, however in the interim, Wilson appears assured that it will not be the case.
