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.

An AI judge gets a tryout during the X Games this week in Aspen, Colorado. The experimental Google Cloud-based tech will judge snowboarding superpipe.

The X Games, after striking a streaming rights deal with Roku, is taking another leap into the digital future by partnering with Google on a new AI judging technology. Ski and snowboard competitions at the “superpipe,