Australian

Guidelines

A Guide for Responsible AI in Sport, Australian Sports Commission and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), (2025). The purpose of this guide is to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by AI adoption to help the Australian sport sector navigate and use AI responsibly. It brings together knowledge from international best practice, national ethical principles, and insights gathered through interviews with diverse stakeholders across sport, government, and technology. Its goal is to provide clear, practical, sport-specific guidance on using AI in ways that are safe, ethical, and aligned with Australian sport values.

• Two checklists have been created referencing ‘A guide for responsible AI in sport'. These checklists are designed to help participants, clubs, coaches, administrators, and sporting organisations apply the guidance in a clear and actionable way.
  • A Guide for Responsible AI in Sport: Checklist A - Play Well with AI (2025). Designed to support community sport as part of the Play Well strategy.
  • A Guide for Responsible AI in Sport: Checklist B - Win Well with AI (2025). Designed to support high-performance sport as part of the Win Well strategy.

AI For Australian Sport: A Roadmap to Increase the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence for the Australian Sports Sector, Australian Sports Commission and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), (2025). This report sets out a roadmap to guide AI adoption across Australian sport. Drawing on international benchmarking, desktop research and consultations with stakeholders across government, sport, technology and community organisations, it identifies four focus areas where AI is already making an impact and where future opportunities lie.

Best Practice Principles on Athlete-Centric Governance of Technology and Athlete Information, opens in a new tab, J. Powles and J. Alderson, University of Western Australia for the Australian Sports Commission, (2023). This best practice document has been developed to provide advice to the Australian national high performance sport system in delivering best practice governance of technology and athlete information.

National High Performance Data Strategy, opens in a new tab, High performance (HP) sport sector, (2023). The data strategy has been co-created by members of the Australian HP sport system to ensure relevance and operability. Not specific to AI, but the data principles and data governance are relevant.

Reports

Artificial Intelligence tools for HP sports: Comparison of AI solutions for evidence synthesis in high-performance sport, Australian Sports Commission, (December 2025). With Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools becoming increasingly accessible and embedded in everyday technologies (from search engines to mobile devices), athletes, coaches, and performance staff in high performance (HP) sport are now engaging with AI on a daily basis. This project evaluated the suitability of various AI-powered tools for evidence synthesis within sport science. Nine tools were assessed: five widely used, general-purpose large language models (in their free version) and four academically oriented or sport science–specific platforms (most requiring a subscription). Each tool was presented with identical sport science questions, and Subject Matter Experts independently performed blind reviews of all responses.

Guidelines

• AI use in sports science, opens in a new tab, ESSA, (12 January 2026). The guidelines below provide an overview of the current uses of AI in a sporting context, how accredited sports scientists may look to leverage its use to improve athlete performance, and the ethical considerations essential for the use of AI. The goal of these guidelines is to provide actionable insight and guidance that can be utilised when considering or working with Artificial Intelligence systems.