Motions

Grand Final

  • This House would hold commercial artificial intelligence developers legally liable for the downstream military and paramilitary applications of their dual-use models (e.g., designing, coding, or optimizing operational weapons systems)
  • Novice Final

  • Assuming the technology exists, THBT society is not justified in using Cognify
  • ESL Final

  • This House Believes That meliorism is true
  • Novice Partial-Finals

  • THBT the US Democratic Party should prioritize democratic socialist policies ahead of the 2028 elections
  • ESL Semifinals

  • This House would legally prohibit individuals with irreversible anterograde amnesia (or equivalent cognitive conditions preventing the formation of new long-term memories) from being held culpable for crimes committed after their condition's onset
  • Open Semifinals

  • THBT middle‑income countries should use the Alma-Ata PHC framework, rather than Selective PHC, in healthcare policy-making
  • Open Quarterfinals

  • This House would legally prohibit individuals with irreversible anterograde amnesia (or equivalent cognitive conditions preventing the formation of new long-term memories) from being held culpable for crimes committed after their condition's onset
  • Round 5

  • This House prefers a world in which human beings perceive their identity as fundamentally "episodic" (a series of disconnected, independent present selves) rather than "diachronic" (a continuous, unified narrative connecting past, present, and future)
  • Round 4

  • THBT parents should teach their children to adopt revolutionary anti-AI stances at an early age
  • Round 3

  • This House regrets the rise of state-backed Sovereign Wealth Funds acquiring majority stakes in professional sports franchises
  • Round 2

  • THBT developing countries should prioritise being a Developmental Dictatorship over a Democratic Republic
  • Round 1

  • This House regrets the rise in the contentification of confessions