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  • This house believes that the AI race does more harm than good

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    Tech giants Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta have been racing towards AI development by heavily prioritising it within their companies. Examples of efforts to prioritise it include rebranding, and restructuring departments in order to give more resources to AI development teams.

    De La Salle Pre-UADC 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-05-03

  • This house regrets the development of AI software engineers

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    Devin is the world's first AI software engineer to automate software engineering work by planning and executing thousands of decisions to develop new programs and fix bugs. It can recall context at every step, fix its mistakes, and accept feedback from users in real time. Devin fixes 13.86% of real-world software issues end-to-end, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%.

    University of Waterloo HST 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-04-27

  • This house, as the feminist movement, would publicly advocate for "cyborg feminism"

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    Transhumanist feminism, or "Cyborg Feminism", is a theoretical intellectual movement that supports transhumanist technological advancements that lessen or eliminate biological differences between genders (i.e. cybernetic implants, genetic modification, assisted reproductive technologies, etc.) "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":769,"3":{"1":0},"11":4,"12":0}" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Transhumanist feminism, or "Cyborg Feminism," is a theoretical intellectual movement that supports transhumanist technological advancements that lessen or eliminate biological differences between genders (i.e. cybernetic implants, genetic modification, assisted reproductive technologies, etc.)

    Ottawa Round Robin 2024 · Round 3A · 2024-04-27

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the US military to prioritise defense startups over traditional defense companies

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    The Defense Innovation Unit is an organisation part of the US Department of Defense that is part of an expansion towards venture capital, private equity firms, and defense tech start up companies. It is currently lead  by Doug Beck, former Apple executive.

    Ottawa Round Robin 2024 · Round 2A · 2024-04-27

  • This house, as NASA, would fake the moon landing

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    Taylor's Asian Parliamentary 2024 · Novice Final · 2024-04-19

  • This House prefers a world in which a Resident Evil machine exists.

    Infoslide

    Resident Evil is a VR (virtual reality) machine that takes the user through a series of scenarios with the aim of testing whether the user would break some of the universal moral norms (killing, stealing, betraying others, etc.). While connected to the machine, the simulated scenarios appear completely real to the user. All adults are tested on the Resident Evil machine, and their results are publicly available.

    Debatni turnir Prve beogradske gimnazije 2024 · Srednjoškolsko Finale · 2024-04-16

  • This house would mandate all individuals to go into the simulator once at 18

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    There exists a machine that can simulate the conditions of living in absolute poverty for one year. The simulation itself takes about a few hours, but the person in the simulation feels the passing of time as "real". People would not experience death, but everything else is a 100% copy of living in absolute poverty.

    JPDU Spring Tournament 2024 · Open Grand Final · 2024-04-13

  • This house prefers a world with relationship credit scores.

    Infoslide

    A “relationship credit score” is a score that is given to an individual based on a number of set rules, where good behavior in relationships improves one’s score and bad behavior in relationship decreases one’s score. Any individual can access another's score via a website. For the sake of debate, assume that relationship credit score organizations have access to the necessary information to score on a set of criteria.

    JPDU Spring Tournament 2024 · Open Grand Final · 2024-04-13

  • Assuming the TikTok bill passes the U.S. Senate, This house, as the EU, would immediately (within the 6 month period) follow in the ban

    Infoslide

    In March 2024, the US House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill that would force China-based TikTok developer ByteDance to either give up its ownership of the app within 6 months or face a ban in the US. The bill was passed out of concern over Chinese control over a major news source, and a Chinese national security law that requires Chinese companies to share information with the government on request. The bill is now awaiting a decision from the Senate.

    JPDU Spring Tournament 2024 · Open Semi Finals · 2024-04-13