Starter discussions

Should AI companies publish incident reports even when nobody was harmed? Near misses can reveal risks before a serious failure makes the lesson obvious.

Should children have a legal right to delete their parents' posts about them? A child's future privacy should outweigh a parent's wish to document everything publicly.

Should face recognition be banned from apartment buildings? People should not surrender biometric data just to enter their home.

Should governments fund research that might overturn their own policies? Evidence should not be selected to protect the officials paying for it.

Should billionaires be allowed to buy priority access to experimental longevity treatments? Private spending can fund research that eventually benefits more people.

Should scientists lose grants for hiding failed experiments? Selective publication wastes resources and distorts what the evidence actually shows.

Should private DNA databases be inaccessible to police without a warrant? A relative's curiosity should not silently expose an entire family to investigation.

Should social platforms remove engagement counts entirely? Visible popularity turns conversation into a competition for reaction.

Should employers be banned from using emotion-recognition software in interviews? A hiring decision should not depend on a machine's guess about a facial expression.

Should apps pay for the attention they sell to advertisers? Users create the audience value and deserve a direct share.

Should autonomous weapons always require a human to approve each strike? Machines should not independently decide to kill people.

Should universities reject papers whose authors cannot explain their AI-written analysis? An author must understand the reasoning they ask others to trust.