Global AI Debates
Dialogue-Driven AI Literacy
We are dedicated to making AI literacy a shared journey—one that unfolds through debate, discussion, and collaborative discovery, equipping our community to foster the development an informed and inclusive digital future.
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Debating Our Future
Two Competition Tracks
Public Speaking Track
Individual Entry
In this individual event, students deliver a 7-minute, well-researched speech on a designated AI-related topic based on their age group. Each speech should be a single-take, unedited video recording. Participants may use AI tools for research, writing, and content creation, including visuals. The top 20% of participants advance to the elimination rounds, where they may submit a new video or reuse their original video.
Schedule
March 1st, 2025: Video Submissions Due
March 20th, 2025: Finalists Announced
April 5th, 2025: Final Videos Due
April 25th, 2025: Winner Announced
Essay and Debate Track
Team Entry
This team-based track combines written essays with live debates, challenging students to research, build arguments, and engage in structured debate rounds. Students may work individually or in teams (even whole classrooms can collaborate on a submission), but the top 32 teams will need to choose 2 representatives for the live debate rounds.
Schedule
March 1st, 2025: Essay Submission – Teams submit a written essay on their designated topic.
March 22nd, 2025: Rebuttal Submission – The top 64 teams submit written rebuttals to opposing essays.
March 30th, 2025: Debate Advancement – The top 32 teams advance to live debates.
April 5-25th, 2025: Live Debate Tournament – Elimination debates are held over zoom.
April 25-30th, 2025: Championship Debate – The final 2 teams compete in the championship debate.
Topic
Ages 10-11: Students should be able to use generative AI in school (1,000-word essay)
Ages 12-13: Students should be able to use generative AI in school (1,500-word essay)
Ages 14-15: AI developments will reduce global poverty (2,000 word-essay)
Ages 16-18: AI will enhance human flourishing (2,000-word essay)
Ages 19-22: AI will enhance human flourishing or (students pick) Frontier AI models should be open source (2,500-word essay)
Competition Logistics
Round 1
Write a 1,500-word essay*,** and submit it by March 1, 2025. *See details under topics
Round 2
The top 64 advancing teams*** in each age division will be notified by March 15 and will have until March 30, 2025, to write a rebuttal to another advancing team’s arguments
Round 3
Top 32 advancing teams will be notified by March 22, 2025
Round 4
April 5-10: 16 online debates among the top 32 per division
April 10-15: Top 16 in each division debate
April 15-20: Top 8 in each division debate
April 22-24: Top 4 in each division debate
April 25-30: Final round debate
Notes
*Length varies by age division. See below.
**Students will write an essay on one side of the resolution. They may pick the side they write on, but they must be prepared to debate both sides of the resolution based on random assignment if they advance to the elimination rounds.
*** We will advance up to 64 entered teams in each division, but we will not advance more than half of the entries. All entries in the top 20% will receive awards.
Elimination Round Judges
Judges
Justin Bruno
AI Strategist @ Michigan Virtual
Dr. Jennifer Camille Dempsey
Director, PennWest Center for AI and Emerging Technologie
Joe Carver
Associate Head of School, The Meadows School
David Coale
Partner at Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP
Dr. Alan Coverstone
Founder, Covariant Education
Jerry Crisci
Co-founder of the Center for Innovation at the Scarsdale Public Schools
Vera Cubero
Emerging Technologies Consultant
North Caroliina Department of Public Instruction
Dr. Laura Dumin
AI Institute, American Association of Colleges and Universities
Benjamin Durham
Ploto, Ethical Data Collection Solutions
Sofia Fenichells
Founder, StudyHall.ai
Eric Fraser
CTO, Dr. Lisa AI
Dr. Thomas Goodnight
Professor, USC; identified as one of the top 5 scholars in argumentation in the twentieth century
Alex Gray
AI Network Lead, British Schools in the Middle East
Dr. Jason Gulya
Chair, AI Council, Berkeley College
John Hines
Co-Founder, DebaterHub.com (AI)|
Maim Hoque
Senior Business Consultant, IBM
Dr. James Hutson
PHds in Art and Artificial Intelligence
Lindenwood University
Alex Iftimie
Deputy General Counsel, OpenAI
Dr. Michelle Kassorla
Professor of English & Technology, Georgia State
Perimeter
Dr. Michael Kearney
Associate Manager, Data Science - Development & AI, Meijer
Zach Kinzler
Boodlebox.ai
Mary Lang
Center for Leadership, Equity & Justice, USC Annenberg
Melissa Loble
Chief Academic Officer, Instructure (Canvas)
Dr. LeAnne Lindsey
Director of EdTech and Innovation, AZ Institute for Education and the Economy
Brian Manuel
Former Director of Policy Debate, Stanford University
Lori Mazor
Founder, Syntheviti.ai
Devika Mehta
Deputy Editor, Jagran New Media
Susan Morrisey
Roach Leadership Center, AI Consultant, Boston College
Dr. Kimberly Pace-Becker
Iowa State & Moxie Academic Labs
Dr. Sabba Quidwai
Founder, Designing Schools
Dr. Anand Rao
Chair, Department of Communication & Digital Studies
University of Mary Washington
Tom Rogerson
Headmaster, Cottesmore School (UK)
Dan Shalmon
Debate Coach, UC Berkeley
Nisha Talagala
Founder & CEO, AI Club
Dr. Tatjana Titareva
Titareva AI Education Consultancy
Ghazali bin Abdul Wahab
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Edward Williams
Debate Coach, Harvard Debate Council
Dr. Jessica Yeats
Principal Data Scientist, Autonomous Vehicles, NVIDIA
Dr. Joseph Zompetti
Full Professor of Communication, Illinois State
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