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Type: Artificial Intelligence ×

This house supports close relationships with artificial intelligence (AI) (e.g. confiding in ChatGPT as if it is a very good friend, making specific plans to spend time interacting with it).
Singapore International Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-16
This house hopes for a rise in movements against AI and automation within current religions (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.)
Hart House Autumn Split 2025 · Gold Final · 2025-11-15
This House Supports the advancement of Artificial Intelligence in western democracies
Ecuadorian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-14
This house believes that Western governments should implement strict capital requirements on AI firms (e.g loan-to-value limits, selective monetary tightening, setting balance sheet stress tests, capital adequacy requirements)
Cambridge Intervarsity 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-08
This house hopes that humanity develops the technology to create simulated universes
Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Novice Grand Finals · 2025-11-08
This house supports the use of "Life-like"
Infoslide

For the purposes of this debate, "Life-like" is a sentient AI system that creates a comprehensive profile of a deceased person's personality, communication style, and behavioral patterns. It learns from content such as videos of the person, their online interactions, language choices, and preferences to build an AI model. The AI is designed to mimic the speech patterns, mannerisms, and knowledge of the deceased individual based on the data it has processed. The AI is designed to mimic the speech patterns, mannerisms, and knowledge of the deceased individual based on the data it has processed. This data is not limited to recently deceased people, it can include content and information about historical figures. Once the initial AI model is created, it can interact with users through various interfaces such as text messaging, voice messages, and phone calls.

UBC Summer HST 2025 · Junior Semifinals · 2025-11-04
This house would invest into the development of AI caretakers for children and old people
Infoslide

AI caretakers refer to artificially intelligent systems or robots designed to help care for vulnerable groups, such as children or the elderly. These technologies may assist with tasks like supervision, companionship, health monitoring, education, or daily routines.

Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · 15-and-Under Finals · 2025-11-02
In countries with a deficit in guidance counselors, this house believes that states should increase funding for AI guidance chatbots
Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01
This House Believes That Brazil should ban the construction of Artificial Intelligence data centers on its territory.
Armorial 2025 · Rodada 3 · 2025-11-01
This House supports the rise of AI fact-interveners in online political discussions.
Infoslide

On the social-media platforms, AIs can interject directly into threads to clarify or fact-check claims made by users. It provides short, sourced explanations, flags factual errors, and keeps track of the conversation, offering context to both sides as the debate evolves.

South Atlantic Debate Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-01
This house supports the rise of AI romantic partners
Infoslide

AI romantic partners are human-like digital romantic partners powered by AI. They are used for user-tailored conversations and aim to replicate real life relationship experience.

Prague Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-01
Assuming a world where AIs manage to achieve the same level of sentience as humans, this house believes that AIs should be given the same legal rights as humans
SMU Novice Debating Championships 2025 · Open Grand Final · 2025-11-01
This House supports the normalization of human-AI relations
Infoslide

For the purposes of this debate, human-AI relations describes a relationship between humans and artificially intelligent entities (i.e. robots, androids, LLMs) that identically parallel relations between humans (i.e. friendship, attraction, trust). An example of human-AI relations include a recently viral video of children playing sports with a humanoid robot in China.

University of Western Ontario Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Junior Semifinals · 2025-11-01
This house believes that the valuation of major AI companies will decrease in the next 2 years
Yale Intervarsity 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-10-31
This house believes that the US should curb the rapid growth of data centers
Infoslide

Data centers are crucial physical infrastructures which stores large amounts of digital information that fuel emerging technologies such as AI and the Internet of Things. Currently, there are over 5000 data centers across the United States which are primarily developed for Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. While data centers have brought billions of dollars in investments and created thousands of jobs, they are extremely energy-intensive and use immense amounts of local resources especially water.

3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Round 3 · 2025-10-25
This house prefers a world where a small robot flies beside everyone’s head and scolds people if they violate utilitarian ethics.
Infoslide

Utilitarians believe that the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing the amount of good things (such as pleasure and happiness) in the world and decreasing the amount of bad things (such as pain and unhappiness).

Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-10-25
This house prefers a world where governments surrendered all decision-making to the Headband of Knowledge
Infoslide

The Headband of Knowledge is a machine that estimates the social benefit or harm of any proposed policy for each individual in society. It operates without bias toward a person's identity (e.g. class, race, gender, or social status) and is limited to domestic use, i.e. only one machine may be used per country. The Headband aggregates data and calculates the total pain/happiness generated per citizen per policy option. Each Headband can only be operated by the country’s head of state.

Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-24
This house believes that AGI models should follow virtue ethics over deontology.
Infoslide

Deontology is a moral system that states there are certain rules which are absolute and should never be breached (f.e. murder, stealing, etc.). Virtue ethics is a moral system that states that to be moral, a person should have virtuous characteristics. These characteristics are a moderation of two vices. For example, between the extremes of cowardice and hubris, individuals should find the virtue of being brave.

Dutch Debating League 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-11
This house supports the use of COMPAS
Infoslide

COMPAS(Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) is a computer program that helps judges make decisions, like whether someone should go to jail, get bail, or be closely watched. It uses a set of questions to look at things like a person’s age, past crimes, and social background. Then, it gives a score showing how likely it is that the person might commit another crime. This score is used as an important tool to help judges make their decisions.

HYDS x SDS BP RT 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-10-11
This House believes that the "use of AI for therapeutic purposes" has done more harm than good.
Infoslide

For the purposes of this debate, the "use of artificial intelligence (AI) for therapeutic purposes" refers to the use of computational systems, algorithms, and machine learning to perform tasks that traditionally require human intelligence. Increasingly, AI has been used in areas such as diagnostics, treatment planning, and even the delivery of therapies - for example, through chatbots, virtual therapists, and applications that offer cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or crisis support.

Campeonato Nacional de Debates Escolares 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-10-08