While military brass and corporate bigwigs race to hand every decision to an AI chatbot, one major American institution is drawing a bright white chalkline in the dirt.
According to reporting by the New York Times’ Athletic, the use of AI in major league dugouts will no longer be tolerated, after concerns were raised that the tools were giving some teams an unfair advantage.
Speaking to the publication, anonymous baseball insiders estimated that roughly a third of all major league teams had already been using AI chatbots installed on dugout iPads to give advice on in-game strategy.
Per a memo sent out from the MLB commissioner’s office and viewed by the Athletic, baseball teams were using iPads to access AI chatbots, in a way that went “beyond their originally intended purpose to include recommendations regarding substitutions, pitch calling, and other in-game decisions traditionally made by players and coaches.”
