The Controversies Around AI in Sports - Unite.AI

If you watched the 2026 FIFA World Cup, you probably saw the now-familiar ritual: a goal, a celebration, then a referee touching an earpiece while fans and players wait for the verdict from the video assistant referee, or VAR. That ritual is not unique to soccer. Baseball has a replay center in New York, and other sports have also moved once-human calls into review systems.

It gained a lot of attention when it was recorded back in June – now video of Canadian high diver and social media personality Molly Carlson diving off an iceberg grounded near Twillingate has been released. Carlson is an overall runner-up in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series – and she became the first woman in history to dive from a freestanding iceberg.  She trained ahead of time by learning how to ice-climb. Molly Carlson surveying the iceberg she is about to dive from (Red Bull)The highly-organized event gained a lot of attention and concern in this province, where people are only too aware of the dangers of approaching – or climbing on top of – an iceberg. Huge chunks of ice that calved from Greenland glaciers pass by the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador each spring and early summer. While they attract a lot of interest and are a huge tourist draw, they are highly unstable and unpredictable as they melt and break apart. Carlson admitted the danger involved in a video released by Red Bull.

Forward ends it at 3:47 after scoring with 2:00 left in third; Winnipeg drops fourth in row DALLAS -- Roope Hintz scored at 3:47 of overtime after tying it late in the third period, and the Dallas Stars rallied for a 3-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets at American Airlines Center on Thursday.