By Tegan Jones
Publication Date: 2026-02-24 21:10:00
Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I discuss how AI is impacting Australia. In this issue: Who owns the data your body produces at work?
The Melbourne GP is just around the corner and one thing that is becoming increasingly important as the sport becomes more technical is that a rider’s body is part of the equipment.
Drivers go to work wired. Heart rate, blood oxygen, stress responses and even eye movements are streamed from gloves, suits and simulators into proprietary team models. Nowadays, AI plays a big role in this.
Engineers combine this with thousands of telemetry signals from the car to refine racing strategy, training programs and the actual cars.
When a driver changes teams or retires, the biometric and performance records created around him typically remain in the organization’s systems. They are part of the competition archive that informs future strategy and development, rather than something a driver simply takes with them.
