Once a matter of parody, artificial intelligence judging will make its snowsports debut in a few short days at the 2025 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, Snowboarder reports. X Games has partnered with Google Cloud to bring AI judging to SuperPipe competitions at this year's event.

Early in his tenure as the CEO of X Games, Jeremy Bloom is ready to show off some new tricks. Bloom and his charges have been preparing an "AI judge" powered by Google Cloud for the Superpipe competition at X Games Aspen on Jan.

The X Games will experiment judging halfpipe runs this week in Aspen, Colo., using artificial intelligence, the cutting-edge technology that could someday play a role in the way subjectively judged sports are scored.

A new non-human judge will be joining staff at the Winter X Games in 2025. With AI continuing to grow, many believe it may be time to introduce artificial intelligence to adventure sports. For the first time,