Artificial Intelligence Referees: Offsides and Out of Bounds

Nov. 13, 2023—This post by Benjamin Dias ('25) discusses how technological improvement has given birth to greater social scrutiny of referee performance. Beyond replay review, Sports Governing Organizations like the National Football League, National Basketball Association, and Major League Baseball have implemented various camera angles, dedicated replay officers, and trained rules analysts to ensure each game complies with official rulebooks. Still, errors occur. While sports fans and players alike call upon SGOs to replace core referee functions with Artificial Intelligence to improve officiating accuracy, this post cautions against rapid integration out of concern for three distinct categories of legal ramifications.

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