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This house would remove all patents on green technology
Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-08-03
This house would limit AI's application in scientific research.
Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-08-03
This house supports the creation of a single centralized body for AI research and development
Loyola Debate Open 3 · Open Semifinals · 2024-08-02
This house believes that technology has outstripped morality
The 4th Annual CVS Parliamentary Debate 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-08-01
This house prefers EU legislation of AI to legislation imposed by each EU member state
Infoslide

The EU Artifical Intelligence Act is legislation that regulates AI Systems on a 'risk-based approach'. Under this Act, the higher the risk to society, the stricter the rules (for example, increased document keeping, greater obligations on users and distributors, increased human intervention and oversight or, in extreme cases, banning the use of the system). This legislation does not apply to military and defence systems.

Glasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 · ESL Semifinals · 2024-07-31
This house prefers a world where technology company CEOs are compensated primarily through salaries instead of performance based rewards eg. stock options.
Waterloo Online Summer Open 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-07-27
This house regrets the rise of social media fashion influencers.
Waterloo Online Summer Open 2024 · Junior Semifinals · 2024-07-27
This house as NASA, W fake the moon landing.
Infoslide

It is July 20,1969. NASA has just sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to attempt the first human landing on the moon. Unfortunately, an unforeseen asteroid hit the spacecraft and they perished.

Waterloo Online Summer Open 2024 · Junior Finals · 2024-07-27
Assuming feasibility, This House Would let artificial intelligence (AI) judge debates.
Cambodian Debate League Open · Round 3 · 2024-07-27
This House Believes That immortality is the ultimate goal of human advancement.
Cambodian Debate League Open · Semifinals · 2024-07-27
Assuming the technology exists, This House Believes That parents should be allowed to choose their child's characteristics (intelligence, talents, appearances, etc.) before birth.
Cambodian Debate League Open · Round 3 · 2024-07-27
This House opposes "roll-up" strategies in emerging industries
Infoslide

A roll-up strategy is a business approach where a company acquires multiple smaller companies in the same industry or sector and consolidates them into a larger entity. Emerging industries are sectors that are in its early stages but are expected to grow. They often involve new technologies, products, or services that have not yet reached widespread adoption.

Chungang University Debate Society Open 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-07-16
This house opposes the Service Stabilization Act
- Law
- Economics
- Science/Technology
- Asia
- Media
Infoslide

South Korea's "Service Stabilization Act" requires the largest content providers (Google, Netflix, Meta, Naver, and Kakao) to pay network usage fees to South Korean Internet Service Providers (SK, LG U+, etc). These fees, intended to ensure service stability and quality, have significantly increased operational costs for these content providers leading to notable events such as Netflix suing SK Broadband and Twitch reducing its services in South Korea due to the high costs.

Chungang University Debate Society Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-07-16
Given the technology, this house would erase society's memory and evidence of the criminal past of former convicts after their release from prison.
Chungang University Debate Society Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-16
This house believes that Latin American countries should adopt the breaking of industrial patents as a strategy for technological development.
Infoslide

Industrial patents are forms of intellectual property protection, such as registered trademarks, industrial designs, and production models. These rights grant the holder exclusive control over the use and commercialization of their creations, ensuring that only with the holder's permission can third parties use, produce, or commercialize protected inventions.

X Torneio Temático de Debates · Rodada 2 · 2024-07-14
Assuming the technology to do so exists, This house would allow the buying and selling of stat points.
Infoslide

In role-playing games (RPGs), stat points denote how proficient a player is in a specific attribute or skill. Examples of attributes include strength, intelligence, and charisma (rizz). Examples of skills include cooking, music, and driving. In this world, stat points correspond to your actual real-world proficiency.

Hart House Summer Open 2024 · Junior Finals · 2024-07-13
This house opposes the rise of citizen journalism
Infoslide

Citizen journalism is journalism where citizens play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information.

Glasgow Summer Cup 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-13
This house would nationalize the development of Generative AI
Infoslide

Generative AI is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, or other media, using generative models. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. Examples of Generative AI include large language model chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard, text-to-image artificial intelligence art systems such as Midjourney, and DALL-E, and AI systems like MusicGen and Make-a-video which can generate music and videos respectively.

Guangdong Debate Challenge 2024 · Open Quarter Finals · 2024-07-13
This house opposes the rise of big game publishers, such as Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, buying up big game studios, such as Bethesda, Rare, Visceral Games etc
Glasgow Summer Cup 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-07-13
This house predicts that the life for an average individual will be worse in a 100 years compared to now
Glasgow Summer Cup 2024 · Partial Quarterfinals · 2024-07-13