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  • This house prefers a state where all policy is determined by the Bentham Machine.

    Infoslide

    The Bentham Machine ("The Machine") is an advanced supercomputer able to quantify, predict, and measure happiness. The Machine is highly capable of making decisions based on maximizing the number of people who will be happy. This is the only metric The Machine will base its decisions off of.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2023 · Non-Highschools Finals · 2023-09-29

  • This House, as independent screen actors in the United States, would not partake in the strikes and instead embrace the industry use of AI.

    Infoslide

    The Screen Actors Guild of America and Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is an American labor union that represents over a hundred thousand media professionals worldwide. Since July, actors have been striking against production studios after being underpaid and having their personal image used for profit without their consent through generative AI.

    Oragon Debate Cup 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-09-15

  • This house regrets the rise of AI doomerism

    Infoslide

    Infoslide C: AI Doomerism is a popular narrative that focuses on the potential negative impacts of the widespread use and growth of Artifical Intelligence

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-08-31

  • Assuming the technology existed, This house would grant AGI legal personhood

    Infoslide

    Infoslide B: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a type of hypothetical artificial intelligence that could theoretically perform any task at a human or super-human level

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-08-31

  • This house would grant all creative professionals the right to own and sell their likeness (e.g. the replication of their voice, image, etc. by AI)

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2023 · Octofinals · 2023-08-31

  • This house supports a pause in AI development.

    Infoslide

    More than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and others, have urged artificial intelligence labs to pause development. Various other known experts in technology and the industry such as the Chief Technology Officer of Meta and Bill Gates have criticised the call for pause calling it unrealistic and not a solution.

    RCL PD 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-08-25

  • This house supports the proliferation of AI trading models

    Infoslide

    AI trading strategies refer to the use of computer models and algorithms to analyse market data and make trades. These models are often trained on market data and use machine learning to identify trends and patterns in the market, to provide for automated trading (wherein a user does not have to intervene once a set of certain conditions have been set for the AI to make a trade).

    Princeton IV 2023 · Pre-Quarterfinals · 2023-08-05

  • This house believes that SAG-AFTRA should prioritise obtaining concessions on concessions on the use of AI over concessions on the streaming residuals.

    Infoslide

    The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is currently on a strike. There are two main points of disagreement, according to SAG-AFTRA. The actors are asking studios for revenue sharing, which means actors would get a fixed residual and also a separate residual tied to the amount of money a show brought in once it hit streaming platforms. The other concern is to tighten regulation on the use of artificial intelligence in creative projects (for example, the use of background actors' images to create AI deepfakes). While SAG-AFTRA is on strike, union members cannot work on any project.

    Rahat Fundraiser Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Novice Quarterfinals · 2023-08-04

  • This house believes that SAG-AFTRA should prioritise obtaining concessions on concessions on the use of AI over concessions on the streaming residuals.

    Infoslide

    The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is currently on a strike. There are two main points of disagreement, according to SAG-AFTRA. The actors are asking studios for revenue sharing, which means actors would get a fixed residual and also a separate residual tied to the amount of money a show brought in once it hit streaming platforms. The other concern is to tighten regulation on the use of artificial intelligence in creative projects (for example, the use of background actors' images to create AI deepfakes). While SAG-AFTRA is on strike, union members cannot work on any project.

    Rahat Fundraiser Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Open Octofinals · 2023-08-04

  • This house believes that SAG-AFTRA should prioritise obtaining concessions on streaming residuals over concessions on the use of AI

    Infoslide

    SAG-AFTRA, the Hollywood actor's union, is currently on strike over two main issues: 1) Residuals (payments made as a consequence of the popularity of a TV show or movie) decreasing exponentially when that piece is available on streaming services. 2) The use of AI (for example, the use of background actors' images to create AI deepfakes) While SAG-AFTRA is on strike, union members cannot work on any project.

    DK Wien Mini Invitational 2023 · No Round · 2023-07-20

  • This House Prefers a world ruled by a benevolent AI programmed to maximize utility by calculating the actions most guaranteed to reduce the greatest global suffering

    World Schools Debating Championship 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-07-18

  • That we regret (DGA)'s deal with the AMPTP

    Infoslide

    "In May 2023, the Writers Guild of America launched a strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade association that represents over 350 American television and film production companies. The ongoing strike is the largest interruption to the American film and TV production since the COVID-19 pandemic. The guild, representing 11,500+ screenwriters, demands for the increase of wage and residuals (i.e. bonus/royalty) which have been decreasing due to the rise of streaming platforms and for the strict (and potentially regulated) boundaries of the use of AI technologies in the screenwriting process (i.e. as a complementary tool as opposed to a replacement tool). Following suit, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) launched an independent strike (i.e. not involving the WGA) focusing primarily on increase of wages and residuals, in which they managed to strike a deal with the AMPTP. This deal awarded higher compensation and more residuals for directors."

    Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-07-01

  • This House Regrets Artificial Intelligence Art

    Infoslide

    Artificial intelligence art is any artwork, particularly images and musical compositions, created through the use of artificial intelligence programs, such as text-to-image models and musical generators.

    Canada Cup 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-06-24

  • This house regrets the increased use of artificial intelligence to produce works of art

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    Recent developments of easily accessible artificial intelligence models made several apps and websites working with computational creativity (a scientific field studying AI's potential to simulate or replicate human creativity) increasingly popular. Examples include: screenplays produced by ChatGPT, paintings created by Midjourney or DALL-E, and songs generated by Soundraw.

    27th Lithuanian Schools Debating Academy · Round 5 · 2023-06-21

  • 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, Facebook, CNN, BBC, etc.).

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · Round 6 · 2023-06-16