EDITORIAL: AI will transform sports betting. It will also increase the risks.

Advanced artificial intelligence is already changing the face of professional sports. AI-generated analytics and algorithms can more precisely track such metrics as a running back’s speed on the gridiron or the velocity of an infielder’s throws across the diamond. Athletes use AI to enhance their training regimens. Coaches use it in recruitment and game-day strategizing.

Just as AI is affecting sports, it is, perhaps inevitably, going to transform the business of betting on them. We’ve noted previously that the explosion of legal sports betting and the proliferation of sports betting apps has fueled gambling addiction, bankruptcies and job losses. The rapid advance of AI into the gambling sphere could exacerbate all of that.