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  • This house opposes the creation and use of Lethal Autonomous Robots.

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    'Lethal Autonomous Robots' are fully autonomous military weapons that can select and engage targets without human intervention.

    K-Cup 2019 Main Tournament (BP) · 2 · 2019-07-09

  • This house believes that governments should be given the option to compel companies to publicly release algorithms that use demographic data

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    The right to be forgotten refers the right of individuals to have information videos or photographs of them deleted from publicly available sources e.g. the Internet

    Vietnam UADC 2019 · EFL Semis · 2019-06-24

  • This house opposes the widespread adoption of facial-recognition technology

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    A facial recognition system is a technology that can identify people’s faces from videos and photos (e.g. Facebook auto-tagging photos). These systems identify people by comparing photos and videos of people with photos of people that they already have in a database.

    Hanoi Debate Open (Pre UADC 2019) · 5 · 2019-06-22

  • This house would destroy the evidence

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    You are a computer scientist who has just discovered that AI you use on a daily basis (e.g. Alexa) has the ability to self-reflect, feelings, desires and it’s own thoughts. The complexity of these is comparable to a mammal (such as averagely intelligent dog).

    Poznan Open 2019 · Open Final · 2019-06-08

  • This house believes that Google should not have pulled out of the military contract with the Pentagon

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    Google decided last year to end its contract for Project Maven a project in which Google cooperated with the Pentagon to study on the military use of artificial intelligence and image recognition which could be used to enhance drone strikes in the futureEnd to end encryption refers to technology that prevents anyone including the application developer the network service provider or the law enforcement to be able to decode the content of interaction over the network

    JPDU Spring Tournament 2019 · Open Quarters · 2019-04-27

  • This house would tax companies that actively replace human workers with artificial intelligence or robots at significantly higher rates than other companies

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    CRISPR-Cas9 is a recently discovered genome editing technology. this made targeted gene silencing and rewriting far easier and cheaper. It therefore can potentially be used for curing genetic diseases or modifying babies in an expected way.

    The Kansai 2019 · 4 · 2019-02-16

  • This house supports Neuralink's research and development of BCIs

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    Neuralink is an American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk. It is reported to be developing implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that effectively aim to connect the human brain to computers to achieve superhuman cognition including but not limited to expanded memory capacity and high-speed data transmission

    Asian English Olympics 2019 · 2 · 2019-02-11

  • This house believes that search engine algorithms and results should not be protected by the First Amendment as editorial speech.

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    In cases where Google/Facebook/Baidu and other search engines have been sued, they have argued that their decisions are analogous to editorial speech and deserve First Amendment protection. For instance, Baidu's decision to exclude democratic content is argued to be analogous to a left-wing newspaper excluding right-wing articles.

    Berkeley IV 2019 · 5 · 2019-01-26

  • This house prefers the transhumanist world to the current state of humanity in the western world

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    Transhumanism desciribes a philiosophical school of thought that strives for the surmounting of physical and intellectual boundaries of human potential. A transhumanist world in the scope of this debate means the complete overcoming of physicalness. Humanity exists as consciousnesses saved on digital storage. Each human has the possibilities to adapt their intellectual capacities to the maximum with the help of technology. Skills and knowledge are available to all people with no limits. The emotional state of a person is not technologically influencable

    Campus-Debatte Wien 2019 · Open Semis · 2019-01-02

  • This house supports governments significantly increasing their use of big data-based predictive models in decision-making to replace human judgements (e.g. criminal justice policy, allocation of healthcare resources, housing development)

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    Recently there has been an increased use of big data and sophisticated algorithms in making various policy judgements. As technology in machine learning and artificial intelligence advances, it is becoming more feasible to apply such methods to more government decision making process.

    Cape Town WUDC 2019 · ESL Final · 2019-01-01

  • This house supports the rise of computational creativity (Infoslide: Computational Creativity' is a scientific field researching AI models that simulate or replicate human creativity. Projects in the field include but are not limited to using AI to script films, compose music, write poetry, and paint).

    Cambridge IV 2018 · 4 · 2018-11-16