EA Management is Urging Staff to Use AI for a Wide Range of Tasks - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 28 October 2025 / 1,877 Views
Electronic Arts (EA) management has been urging employees over the past year to use a AI for a wide range of tasks that include coding, concept art, and more. This is according to current EA staff that spoke with Business Insider under anonymity.
Some of the staff talked with say the AI tools they are being encouraged to use produce "flawed code" that has to be fixed.
A former Respawn employee that was among 100 laid off this past spring believes he was let go because AI was reviewing and summarizing feedback from play testers. This is a job he usually did.
Others are expected to train the AI software by giving it their own work and are worried doing so will cause the demand for character artists and level designers to fall.
Internal documents obtained by Business Insider shows some EA employees are expected to complete AI training courses, use AI tools everyday, and use generative AI like "a thought partner."
EA as part of its 10-K Securities and Exchange Commission filing in May revealed it was using AI tools more.
"We are integrating artificial intelligence tools and technologies into our business and development processes," reads the EA filing. "The use of artificial intelligence might present social and ethical issues that, if not managed appropriately, may result in legal and reputational harm, cause consumers to lose confidence in our business and brands and negatively impact our financial and operating results."
Thanks, VideoGamesChronicle.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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Use the software thats going to make you not have a job in the future
In other words "Use the soulless technology we wanna replace you with.".
Feels like there’s reasonable incentive for some people to walk out of EA and enter the job hunt now rather than later, after being forced to contribute to something they don’t want.
Yeah, time for EA employees to start preparing to find their next job and leave on their own terms rather than wait for the AI systems that they are training with their work to force them out through layoffs eventually.
While i enjoyed programming on my own (nothing related to gaming) i can fully understand the shift to use AI to supplement on the tasks. While AI might not be always accurate or produce bugs at the moment, the advancements happening within the past month are incredible and will support in increasing the output by a lot
Buy those retro carts and discs now, kids. You're gonna need 'em.
oof, sounds like an awful decision. Can't imagine trusting AI to write good code. If companies start doing that we can expect buggier and glitchier games as the norm. I can see it being useful for summarizing cuz AI is pretty good at that, and for concept art alongside human artists to provide more ideas, and just as a tool that humans use as in any other software tool but not something to replace human work and definitely not to replace coding by humans.
I find that if it sounds like an awful decision then it IS an awful decision.
Ai is writing tons of code, it has been for the past few years. Some of it is flawed, yes. Just like some written by humans is flawed. And it is fixed in just the same way.
Every time new technology is able to perform work that was previously done by humans, the human race moves forward. The people whose jobs are lost to technology are harmed in the short run. But, the human race is better for it. This is the way it always has been, and I've seen no evidence that the AI boom will be any different. It's really just an extension of the personal computing revolution that we've been experiencing for the last 50 years.
Its gonna happen to everyone, milk it while you can I guess
This only can end in good if it means NHL games get AI ported to Steam n Switch. Otherwise nothing good will come of this
