May 16, 2024
F1 cannot yet intervene to regulate teams' use of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.
As the power of AI explodes and sweeps the planet, top F1 teams are beginning to leverage it to improve performance.
AI and machine learning are now helping teams design cars, develop race strategies, and deeply understand the array of sensor data the cars collect on the track.
Ferrari machine learning engineer Luca Bortolotti said teams are even thought to be using AI to analyze in-car footage of rival cars.
If our competitors go through the same corner on the same line, at the same speed, and with a slightly smaller steering angle, it probably means they have more aggressive balance than we do.
He gave just one example:
Corriere dello Sport newspaper asked F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali whether there is a need to crack down on AI to prevent teams that already have it from gaining a huge advantage over their rivals.
We are already using artificial intelligence in graphics and the FIA is using it in active and passive safety systems.
the Italian answered.
We don't yet know enough to intervene, so we committed to understanding how much it might impact performance.
Domenicali added.
(GMM)
