# Why the Game Industry Is Insulated from a Potential AI Crash

**Source**: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/why-game-industry-insulated-potential-ai-crash
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# Why the Game Industry Is Insulated from a Potential AI Crash

Published:

February 11, 2026

From

GamesBeat

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Professor [Julian Togelius](https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/julian-togelius) said the gaming industry is so far behind the cutting edge of AI that even a total collapse of AI development would leave game studios years away from fully using what already exists. “Even if AI development stopped today, it would take us at least 10 years to figure out how to best integrate what we have in our workflows, and in society — probably 20 years.”

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