ABSTRACT
Advanced technologies now threaten to surpass human intelligence. This watershed will radically impact the ways we currently play, view, and even understand sport. Artificial intelligence(AI) is progressing rapidly, and it remains a matter of time until the impact on sport is fully realized. Currently in sport, AI is a tool used to assist humans with performance monitoring, supporter and media engagement, and injury prediction, among other functions. This commentary argues that advanced technologies can provide unfair playing advantages resulting in unintended and negative consequences. We assert that now is the time to discuss exactly who is in control of regulating the use of these, potentially game-changing innovations in sport
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Notes
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19. Ibid.
20. Torres, ‘The Possibility and Risks of Artificial General Intelligence’, 105.
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22. Claudino, ‘Current Approaches to the Use of Artificial Intelligence’, 2–12.
23. Ibid.
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26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Hancock, ‘Imposing Limits on Autonomous Systems’, 289–290.
31. Von Clausewitz, On War.
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35. Hancock, ‘Imposing Limits on Autonomous Systems’, 289–290.
36. Bostrom, ‘Superintelligence’.
37. Hancock, ‘Avoiding Autonomous Agents’ Adverse Actions’.
38. Salmon ‘Putting the Humanity into Inhuman Systems’, 231; Sotala, Yampolskiy, ‘Responses to Catastrophic AGI rRisk’, 4.
39. Hancock,‘Imposing limits on autonomous systems’, 289–290.
40. Geortzel and Pitt, ‘Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence’, 5; Hancock, ‘Imposing Limits On Autonomous Systems’, 289–290.
41. Sotala, Yampolskiy, ‘Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk’, 6.
42. Bradley, ‘Risk Management Standards’, 321.
43. Salmon ‘Putting the Humanity into Inhuman Systems’, 226–229.
44. Armstrong ‘Thinking Inside the Box’, 314; Bostrom, ‘Superintelligence’.
45. Baum, ‘A Survey of Artificial General Intelligence’, 4.
46. Salmon ‘Putting the Humanity into Inhuman Systems’, 235–235.