BlueSky Thinking Summary

The Kellogg Insight post offers insights into infusing artificial intelligence into sports officiating, more precisely how it influences the decisions of umpires.

Bringing out the use of AI technologies in helping to attain precision and fairness for sports like tennis and baseball through automation of video analysis and real-time data processing.

The authors provide various benefits and challenges of AI in sports, including improved decision consistency and fewer miscalls.

This will raise concerns about over-reliance on technology, ethics related to human judgment versus AI algorithms, and continuous adjustments that have to be made in rules and regulations.

Specifically, it explains in an informal way how AI becomes part of the role of sports officiating, sets a stage of when AI will complement umpires, and raises a question regarding how countries will find a balance in any sport between the use of technology and respect for tradition.