This week the International Olympic Committee published its Trustworthy AI Framework for the Olympic Movement, developed with Deloitte and more than 200 leaders from across the Movement. It sets out seven principles: safe and secure AI, respect for personal data, robust and reliable performance, clear and transparent use, accountability, fairness, and sustainability. It comes with a checklist that federations can use to assess any AI system before they rely on it.

We welcome it, and we expect federations to use it on us.

Where we use AI

At Sports-Veritas, an AI system helps draft articles about achievements that a federation has officially declared. It works from the federation's record and the athlete's own words, and it never invents quotes. A named person at the federation reviews, edits and approves every article before publication. That person is the author. Nothing is published by the AI on its own, and the AI decides nothing about who is recognised.

That design comes from a simple conviction: the technology exists to serve the sport, and the achievement and the athlete's voice come first. Our disclosure will be clear and quiet for the same reason.

What we are committing to

1. We will assess ourselves against the IOC checklist and publish a summary of the result. We will report where we are strong and where we are not.

2. We will close the gaps we find. Some fixes have shipped this week. Athletes under 18 cannot submit words or photos through our interview form. Article text is sanitised before publication. Analytics load on Sports-Veritas only when a visitor agrees. Each consent is now stored as its own record, tied to the version of the notice the athlete saw. Others are in progress: one privacy statement covering both sites and our use of AI, and a plain-language page on how articles are made.

3. We will keep people in charge. Every AI-drafted article stays under a named human reviewer.

4. We will re-run the assessment regularly and show what changed.

What this is not

The framework is voluntary guidance, not a certification. We do not claim IOC endorsement, and following it does not replace legal compliance, which we treat as a separate discipline.

We work only with federations in the extended IOC family, including ARISF and AIMS members, and many of them have fewer resources for AI oversight than the largest organisations. The framework exists so that a federation of any size can ask a technology supplier the right questions. Our job is to make those questions easy to ask and the answers easy to check.

If you are a federation and want to put the checklist to us, write to contact@nxtstride.com.