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  • This house would make contract renewal contingent on requiring teachers to obtain periodic AI competency certifications

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    For the purposes of the debate, competency certification in AI refers to qualification verifying a teacher’s ability to teach using AI tools effectively. Examples include teachers using AI to make presentations, checking answers in exams, and marking essay answers using AI.

    Vietnam Asian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-06-15

  • This house prefers a world where governments surrendered all decision-making to the Headband of Knowledge

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    "The Headband of Knowledge is a machine that estimates the social benefit or harm of any proposed policy for each individual in society. It operates without bias toward a person's identity (e.g. class, race, gender, or social status) and is limited to domestic use, i.e. only one machine may be used per country. The Headband aggregates data and calculates the total pain/happiness generated per citizen per policy option. Each Headband can only be operated by the country’s head of state."

    Vietnam Asian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-06-15

  • This house believes it is in the interest of the developers of DeepSeek to use a tiered-use system

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    "A tiered-use system is a business model where users access a basic version of the platform for free, while paying for more advanced features, premium tools, or enhanced access. Examples of platforms using this model include ChatGPT, YouTube, and Spotify. A flat-use system, by contrast, provides the same features to all users without a distinction in access. An example is the current system of DeepSeek."

    Vietnam Asian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-06-15

  • This house, as a space miner in 2291, would accept the offer to join the Unreal Tournament

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    You are a young person living in a space colony in 2291. You work as a miner on a grey rocky planet filled with rare minerals. It is hard work, but enough to earn a living in your small community of 10,000 people living inside a terraformed dome. The Unreal Tournament is an intergalactic sports league where humans, robots, and various alien races kill each other for sport. You fight with futuristic weapons, are allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs, and install transhumanist body modifications. Every time you die, your body is respawned in a safe location. There are various game modes such as: capture-the-flag, deathmatch, and team deathmatch. You are approached by a sponsor in the colony, who promises you a large amount of money if you sign a 5-year-long contract to fight in the Unreal Tournament. She claims an advanced AI prediction algorithm predicted you have a high potential to do well.

    Zagreb Pre-EUDC 2025 · ESL Finals · 2025-06-13

  • That we would use this technology to make preventative arrests

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    In the future, a technology can assess, with 100% accuracy, whether an individual will commit a crime within a decade of the assessment. This assessment updates universally at the beginning of each decade, and includes the future charge but no specific details

    Harvard World Schools Debating Championship Australia-New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-12

  • This house prefers a world where all romantic relationships are arranged by the "Relationship Algorithm"

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    For the context of this debate, a "Relationship Match" algorithm exists which scans and matches every person with their algorithm approved mate. The algorithm seeks to make the ideal practical match on criteria such as values, interests and relationship attitudes (such as the wish to have children, and where you want to live, etc.)

    Salingoy: Santiago Ortega Cup 1 · Open Grand Finals · 2025-06-07

  • This house opposes the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence

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    Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical AI system that is able to think, learn and understand like a human including the ability to self- teach. Compared to current AI models that function within a set of pre- determined parameters and require substantial machine training, AGI hypothetically has autonomous self-control, a degree of self-understanding, and the ability to learn new skills.

    Santiago Ortega Cup II · Open Octofinals · 2025-06-07

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the Trump Administration to not restrict Stargate in the United States

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    The Stargate Project is a multinational joint AI venture by OpenAI, Softbank, Oracle and MGX which plans to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States such as the creation of state-of-the-art data centers and large energy plants. It aims to significantly improve the ability and computing power of current AI models and support the re-industrialization of the US.

    Santiago Ortega Cup II · Open Octofinals · 2025-06-07

  • This house opposes the rise of dystopian narratives about technological progress.

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    Dystopian narratives about technological progress depictinnovation (particularly in areas such as Al, automation, and biotechnology) as a source of large-scale harm, instability, orexistential threat. This framing is prevalent in popular media(e.g. Black Mirror, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane) and insegments of public discourse,including among environmental degrowth advocates and Al safety researchers.

    2025 Spring NHSDLC BP Open · Open Grand Final · 2025-05-30

  • This house opposes the rise of dystopian narratives about technological progress.

    Infoslide

    Dystopian narratives about technological progress depictinnovation (particularly in areas such as Al, automation, and biotechnology) as a source of large-scale harm, instability, orexistential threat. This framing is prevalent in popular media(e.g. Black Mirror, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane) and insegments of public discourse,including among environmental degrowth advocates and Al safety researchers.

    2025 Spring NHSDLC BP Open · Novice Finals · 2025-05-30

  • This house would guarrantee "androids" with citizenship

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    In the future, with a huge decline in the birth rate and the rapid development of technologies, robots have taken on an extremely human-like appearance. They are now "androids" with more advanced, or at least equal, physical, intellectual, and emotional abilities. For example, even the androids are equipped with replaceable body parts and no sensibility to pain. Still, being socialised, they are emotionally able to feel the trauma under assualt.

    Vistaar NITD-PD 24 · Semifinals · 2025-05-29

  • This house would stagnate the development of brain organoid research.

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    Brain organoids are tiny, simplified versions of the human brain grown from stem cells in the lab. They have demonstrated sentientlike neural activity, and ongoing research suggests they may develop increasingly complex, higher- level consciousness over time. Scientists are now integrating brain organoids with AI models to explore their potential in performing complex tasks and advancing neurotechnology.

    Xavier Cup 12 · Round 2 · 2025-05-25