Aristocrat Joins UNLV’s AI Research Hub (AiR Hub) as Latest Founding Member |

Leading international gaming provider joins college initiative to advance accountable AI analysis and implementation

LAS VEGAS – October, 2, 2025 – As trade leaders put together to collect for G2E subsequent week in Las Vegas, UNLV International Gaming Institute (IGI) proclaims that Aristocrat, a worldwide chief in gaming content material and expertise, has joined its AI Research Hub (AiR Hub) as a founding member. The addition strengthens the Hub’s mission to foster a collaborative ecosystem for learning the impacts, dangers, and alternatives of synthetic intelligence (AI) throughout the playing sector.

Launched in May 2025, AiR Hub seeks to speed up the adoption of trusted and accountable AI. As a founding member, Aristocrat will contribute its intensive trade experience to the Hub’s trade advisory panel and assist key analysis initiatives.

“We are thrilled to welcome Aristocrat to AiR Hub as a founding member,” stated Kasra Ghaharian, IGI Director of Research and co-founder of AiR Hub. “Having a global leader with Aristocrat’s scale, technological depth, and commitment to innovation is a monumental step for this initiative. Its perspective will be invaluable as we work to create actionable research and practical tools for the industry.”

“As a leader in the gaming industry, we have a responsibility to uphold high standards of governance, and to positively impact our people, customers, and communities,” stated Anastasios Dagkos, Group General Manager, Responsible Gameplay at Aristocrat. “Collaborating with IGI and others on AiR Hub presents an opportunity for us to contribute our industry expertise to the important conversation around AI and its application in gaming.”

Simo Dragicevic, AiR Hub co-founder and IGI Adjunct Fellow, famous the rising momentum of the initiative. “As the world’s largest gaming technology company, Aristocrat’s addition as a founding member demonstrates the strategic importance of AirR Hub and its mission to develop the industry’s ecosystem for collaborative AI research. We look forward to working with Aristocrat to help build a growing and sustainable entertainment industry,” stated Dragicevic.

Aristocrat joins a prestigious group of founding trade members, together with Action Gaming, Axes.ai, Evoke Plc, Gaming Analytics, Kindbridge Behavioral Health, Playtech Plc, ROGA (Responsible Online Gaming Association), and Walker Digital Table Systems.

The founding member spherical will stay open for a restricted time. For data on becoming a member of, contact Kasra Ghaharian at [email protected].

Media Contact:

Kasra Ghaharian, Director of Research
UNLV International Gaming Institute
[email protected]
702-895-2008

About AiR Hub

The mission of AiR Hub is to advance the rising self-discipline of AI throughout the playing sector and create the trade’s ecosystem for collaborative AI analysis. Created inside UNLV’s International Gaming Institute, AiR Hub conducts novel, vital, and impactful analysis, initially specializing in essentially the most urgent areas from a enterprise and societal perspective. AiR Hub will function the trade’s ecosystem for AI analysis establishments and a catalyst for accelerating adoption of trusted and accountable AI via worldwide collaboration throughout all key stakeholders: trade, academia, regulators, and assist sectors. For extra data go to www.igiairhub.com.

About the UNLV International Gaming Institute

For greater than 30 years, UNLV International Gaming Institute (IGI) has supplied research-based options, cutting-edge insights, and govt training to the worldwide playing trade. With experience in areas like playing and gaming innovation, enterprise operations, regulation and coverage, esports and digital video games, and drawback and accountable playing, IGI has been known as upon to supply its analysis to greater than 50 jurisdictions throughout the globe. In addition to those choices, IGI proudly emphasizes variety and group outreach via initiatives just like the Young Executive Scholars Hospitality & Tourism Program (YES), which supplies excessive schoolers a behind-the-scenes have a look at the profession and academic alternatives that the hospitality trade supplies.

About UNLV

UNLV is a doctoral degree-granting establishment of almost 33,000 college students and greater than 4,000 college and employees that has earned the nation’s highest recognition for each analysis and group engagement from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UNLV gives a broad vary of revered educational packages and is dedicated to recruiting and retaining high college students and school, educating the area’s numerous inhabitants and workforce, driving financial exercise, and delivering high-quality healthcare to Southern Nevadans. Learn extra at unlv.edu.

About Aristocrat Technologies Inc.

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a worldwide leisure and gaming content material creation firm powered by expertise. Our reporting segments span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), regulated on-line actual cash gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and social on line casino (Product Madness). Aristocrat gives a various vary of services and products together with digital gaming machines, on line casino administration techniques, free-to-play cellular video games and on-line actual cash video games, that serve prospects and entertain thousands and thousands of gamers worldwide each day. Our crew of over 7,300 individuals throughout the globe is united by our firm mission to deliver pleasure to life via the facility of play. For extra: www.aristocrat.com.