Explained: How a military grade AI tool is weeding out boxing's corrupt referees and judges

What was the technology used? An automated phone questionnaire – using an artificial intelligence voice analysis system – graded officials as low, medium or high risk. No official refused to undergo the process, which measures the cognitive functions through the caller's responses to questions such as "Have you ever cheated in a boxing event?" According to the sports integrity expert and AIBA advisor Richard McLaren, the technology "bore no resemblance whatsoever" to a lie detector test and is used in military, diplomatic and insurance sectors by analysing the "cognitive functions of the brain through voice responses". "The investigators and analysts utilise the voice analytical tool to help screen officials," McLaren was quoted by The Guardian.