April 29, 2026
AI Won't Allow 16-Year-Old In A Garage To Make Battlefield 7 Or GTA 7, EA CEO Says
Electronic Arts is among the numerous game developers who are embracing AI in their development processes, and now CEO Andrew Wilson has commented further on the controversial topic. Speaking at the iicon event in Las Vegas this week, as reported by Game File , Wilson said he recently saw some internal EA data that said about 85% of the company's quality-assurance work is being done today alongside "some kind of mach...
Electronic Arts is among the numerous game developers who are embracing AI in their development processes, and now CEO Andrew Wilson has commented further on the controversial topic. Speaking at the iicon event in Las Vegas this week, as reported by Game File , Wilson said he recently saw some internal EA data that said about 85% of the company's quality-assurance work is being done today alongside "some kind of machine learning or AI-driven algorithm." This has not led to lower employment at EA for QA work, he said. "We hire more QA people than we ever have," he said. The executive went on to say that EA's QA teams are using AI for "the simple stuff." Related to this, he said EA has needed to hire more QA workers to check the work, which sounds odd, though we do not know the specifics of the situation. This follows on from a Harvard Business Review report that said early findings suggest that AI doesn't reduce work, it intensifies it. Continue Reading at GameSpot
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