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  • This house, as the Panopticon government, would redistribute happiness

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    Panopticon is a futuristic technocratic state. The government has discovered a technology which can quantify and measure, with certainty, the happiness levels of every single living unit within its borders at any given point in time. It can also identify groups that are likelier to experience happiness.

    Manila Pro-Am 2024: Pre-UADC · Round 3 · 2024-03-23

  • Given the existence of an Artificial General Intelligence, This house prefers that it would be based on virtue ethics and not utilitarian framework

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    Virtue ethics is a way of thinking about right and wrong that focuses on good character. It emphasizes acting in ways that reflects positive traits like honesty, courage, and kindness. Utilitarian frameworks think about right and wrong by maximizing outcomes, usually defined as the greatest overall well-being of utility for affected parties. An AGI or artificial general intelligence refers to a type of artificial intelligence that has the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a ride range of tasks at a level equal to or beyond that of a human without specifically being programmed to.

    Ramadan Debate Open 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-03-22

  • This house would ban the development and release of Sora

    Infoslide

    Sora is an AI text-to-video generator developed by Open AI. It allows users to create photorealistic videos with “complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background,” according to OpenAI’s introductory blog post. OpenAI has stated that it plans to make Sora available to the public. The company also shared Sora with a small group of creative professionals, including video makers and artists, to seek feedback on its usefulness in creative fields.

    Warwick Open 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-03-16

  • This house would redistribute all donations to charities to the best charitable organizations as identified as determined by this algorithm.

    Infoslide

    A computer algorithm evaluates global charities using a comprehensive set of criteria. These criteria include effectiveness, transparency, and impact. The algorithm then ranks these charities to identify those that are most effectively addressing urgent and significant issues affecting vulnerable populations.

    NTU DC 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-03-12

  • This house believes that all large data AI repositories should be forced to pay companies for training data skimmed from the internet, even in instances where they are typically free for users (e.g. Youtube, Reddit, CNN, BBC, etc).

    Infoslide

    Infoslide: Development of Artificial Intelligence requires a large amount of training data to learn human-like patterns.

    Jeju Forensics Network Online Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-03-09

  • That, in nations with high levels of corruption, we should adopt a social credit system

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    For the purposes of this debate, a social credit system is a completely autonomous and accurate algorithm that tracks peoples good and bad deeds. If a person has a net positive score they are rewarded (e.g. less tax, cheaper government services like transport, health), if it is net negative they are reprimanded (more tax, more expensive services)

    Intermediate Open 2024 · Round 6 · 2024-03-03

  • This house would nationalise the research, development, and distribution of artificial intelligence.

    Infoslide

    To nationalise means to transfer from private or regional ownership and control to state/government ownership and control."

    The Kansai 2024 · ラウンド3 · 2024-03-01

  • This House Prefers a world with the mass replacement of human police officers with Robocops to a world with no Robocops.

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    A EU-backed agency has developed and programmed Robocop. Robocop is a fully autonomous robot police officer that is an advanced artificial intelligence-driven humanoid machine equipped with a range of sensors, cameras, and communication devices. It is capable of independently patrolling designated areas, detecting criminal activities or safety hazards, enforcing laws, issuing warnings or citations, and making arrests when necessary, all without direct human intervention. It can analyse data in real-time, communicate with human operators or other law enforcement units, and adapt its responses based on the situation, all while adhering to programmed ethical and legal guidelines. Where replacing armed officers, Robocops can be equipped with non-lethal or lethal weapons systems, designed to be deployed in accordance with programmed rules of engagement.

    LSE OPEN 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-02-24

  • This House Supports the increased use of companionship bots

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    Companionship bots are designed to foster humanlike connections using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). These bots take the form of an interactive and personalized chatbots. In most companionship bots, nearly all aspects of it are customizable. Users can buy their bot's clothes, choose their hair color, and dictate how they look, sound, and speak.

    Hart House High Schools 2024 · Junior Finals · 2024-02-17

  • This House prefers a world where there was a single major company developing large AI models* and running major training runs, rather than many companies competing against each other. * including but not limited to: language models like GPT-4, game-playing models like AlphaGo, text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion, and future, more advanced AI technologies.

    Western WSDC 2024 · Open Semifinals · 2024-02-09

  • This house would force couples to take the AI test before getting married

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    Scientists have developed an AI that tests the compatibility between people who are about to get married. It asks a series of real life and hypothetical questions based on past experiences, political and social views, future plans etc. After the test, the AI creates a compatibility profile for the couple and gives a verdict based on its findings regarding the durability of the marriage.

    Sunnydale Rhetoric 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-02-08