Time & Location
April 5, 2025 @ Zoom Meeting
 
About the Event
Exclusive Access: The Global AI Debates – Final Round!
 
Your achievement in 2024 Fall TKEthics Olympiad or 2025 Spring TKEthics Olympiad grants your team direct entry into the final debate heats of the Global AI Debates! This is a prestigious debate and essay competition judged by experts from MIT, UCLA, Microsoft, Perplexity, OpenAI, and UC Berkeley.
No essay submission required – you go straight to the debate rounds!
 
Key Details
Teams: 2 members per debate team
Debate Rounds: Quarterfinals, semifinals, and grand final
Scheduling: Matches will be arranged in April based on student and judge time zones
Judges: Experts from leading universities and AI research institutions
Certificates: Provided by UC Berkeley
 
Team Formation Guidelines
If your team includes members in different age groups, register under the oldest member’s category.
If your original Olympiad team had an odd number of members (e.g., 3 or 5), you may form complete teams of two. If needed, extra members can bring in a new partner to compete
 
Schedule 
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.
 
Topics
Ages 8-9: Children should be allowed to have robot pets
Ages 10-11: Should students be allowed to use generative AI in school?
Ages 12-13: Should students be allowed to use generative AI in school?
Ages 14-15: Will AI developments reduce global poverty?
Ages 16-18: Will AI enhance human flourishing?
Ages 19-22: Will AI enhance human flourishing, or should frontier AI models be open source?
 
Certificate
Provided by UC Berkeley
 
Team Formation Guidelines 
If your team includes members in different age groups, register under the oldest member’s category.
If your original Olympiad team had an odd number of members (e.g., 3 or 5), you may form complete teams of two. If needed, extra members can bring in a new partner to compete.