[ONLINE] Should AI replace human speakers at SFDebate? Hear from AI speakers!

Yes, AI speakers! Come and listen to their opening statements and rebuttals on the question, "Should AI replace human speakers at SFDebate?"

After we hear from the AIs (generative artificial intelligence chatbots, to be precise), human participants will have a moderated floor debate in the usual SFDebate format, where everyone will have the opportunity to speak, but no one is required to speak.

Should AI replace human speakers at SFDebate?

• Proponents of replacing human speakers at SFDebate with AI argue that it requires a lot less work for human volunteers, and that AI has reached such a high stage of development that it can even be counted on to make better-researched and more compelling arguments than a typical human can. AI is a useful tool that does a job that most SFDebate members aren't interested in, so what's not to like?
• Opponents of replacing human speakers at SFDebate with AI argue that the point of SFDebate is for its members to develop their persuasive skills, and having members put in the work expected of speakers is part of that point. Yes, it's amazing what AI can do these days, but we humans need to hold one another accountable and shouldn't take the easy way out by outsourcing our thinking and our trust to some corporation's persuasion machine.

What do you think SFDebate should do? And in the broader world outside of SFDebate, what are some similar places where AI should or should not take over a job that has always been done by humans?

Our meeting will be conducted on Zoom. The Zoom link will be visible here on the event page before the event to those who RSVP. It's your choice if you want to turn on your camera or not, but people who can be seen are often more persuasive.

Here is the full AI prompt that was used to generate the opening statements and rebuttals:

We have a debate club called SFDebate ( https://www.meetup.com/sfdebate ).
We organize regular debates in the following format:
we pick a motion in advance, and two "speakers" (one person for each side).
The speaker in favor of the motion gives an opening statement.
Then the speaker against the motion gives an opening statement,
which may possibly refer to some things the first speaker said.
Then the speaker in favor of the motion gives a rebuttal statement
to the speaker against the motion.
Then the speaker against the motion gives a rebuttal statement
to the speaker in favor of the motion.
But the speakers are not the only people involved in the debate as a whole:
after these speakers give their opening statements and rebuttals,
we have 60 to 90 minutes of moderated "floor debate",
a time when everyone else in the room gets to say what they think.
Floor debate is what SFDebate is really
about, but we still do need to have speakers on both sides of the motion
to kick off the meeting with opening statements and rebuttals in order
to get everyone to understand what the main arguments are on the
opposing sides.
People who show up at SFDebate meetings always enjoy participating in
floor debate, but our problem is that it is often very hard to find people
who want to volunteer as speakers at SFDebate, so we are considering
replacing speakers with AI: that is, having an LLM give the opening
statements and rebuttals, instead of human volunteers.
Here is what I want you to give me:
The motion is "AI should replace human speakers at SFDebate."

• Give an opening statement arguing "Yes" on the motion, of length 4700 to 4900 characters.
• Give an opening statement arguing "No" on the motion, of length 4700 to 4900 characters. It may make reference to the "Yes" side's opening statement, but doesn't have to.
• Give a rebuttal statement for the "Yes" side, against the "No" side, of length 2700 to 2900 characters. It will refer to the "No" side's opening statement.
• Give a rebuttal statement for the "No" side, against the "Yes" side, of length 2700 to 2900 characters. It will refer to the "Yes" side's opening statement and possibly also its rebuttal.

General: all of these statements should be written at approximately
a 10th-grade level of education.
Use only characters that are on a regular keyboard; if you use a dash,
write it as "--".