MEP David Casa urges gambling operators not to replace staff with AI, as job fears grow

Maltese MEP David Casa, of the Nationalist Party (part of the EPP group), has urged gambling operators to invest in their workforces before turning to artificial intelligence, in order to cut costs, warning that reports of gaming workers losing their jobs to AI “deserve our attention”. He was speaking in a keynote at the SiGMA World conference in Rome on Wednesday and afterwards with iGB. Casa, Malta’s longest-serving member of the European Parliament, said Europe should embrace AI’s potential to save time, detect fraud and help staff do their jobs better.