Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is profoundly reshaping the development paradigm of college sports and health education. This study systematically explores the multidimensional opportunities brought about by AI empowerment, including the construction of a dynamic and comprehensive teaching evaluation system, the realization of large-scale personalized teaching, the expansion of virtual-real integrated teaching content, and the promotion of the transformation of teachers' roles into guides and designers. The study also reveals the structural challenges existing in the integration process: the lack of institutional standards restricts deep integration, the insufficient intelligent literacy of teachers leads to the risk of technology dependence, data security and ethical issues are prominent, and the traditional curriculum system lags behind the needs of talent cultivation in the intelligent era. In response to these problems, this article proposes systematic countermeasures: consolidate the foundation by improving institutional norms and data standards, strengthen the cultivation of teachers' intelligent literacy to promote human-machine collaboration, improve data security and ethical governance mechanisms, and ultimately promote the systematic restructuring of the curriculum system and teaching mode. The study shows that the intelligent transformation of college sports education must adhere to the principle of cultivating people, and achieve the organic unity of technology application, system guarantee, and humanistic care, in order to build a modern sports and health education system with Chinese characteristics.

Xie Shanshan. Opportunities, Challenges, and Responses: Artificial Intelligence Empowering College Sports and Health Education. Frontiers in Sport Research (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 5: 56-62. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSR.2025.070509.

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