Theory/Topicality
States means all states
States means at least two states
States means one state
LAWS means all LAWS
LAWS means some LAWS
Lethal — kill humans/non-humans
Advantages
Deontology
Dignity — non-human killing
No proportionality
Non-human killing
Non-human killing makes war more likely
LAWS are not accountable
Violations human rights law/international law (IHL and IL generally are both good)
Human rights impacts — dignity, massacres, autonomy
Arms races
Nuclear escalation
China-US conflict (one plan has both the US and China ban them)
South China Sea conflict (one plan has the US ban AI in use for antisubmarine warfare)
China-Taiwan
Russia-Europe
Russia-US
North Korea — SK/US
Iran — Saudi Arabia/US
China LAWs bad (some plans just have China ban them)
Multilateralism good — AI weapons undermine multilateral arms control
AI arms race + miscalculation and accidents, international norm violations
Space Wars — US/Russia/China
Terrorism — Terrorists get LAWS, terrorist
Automated nuclear response, removes humanity from the nuclear response
AI weapons undermine nuclear deterrence
Russia’s Poiseden causes nuclear war
General war/militarism/endless violence bad. Militarism undermines democracy (so does technology)
LAWS are racist, LAWS turn students into racists, STEM becomes oriented towards racism, ROTB is to fight racism
Drone swarms cause war
Azerbaijan LAWS cause aggression and pipeline wars (Azerbaijan should ban)
Cyber
LAWS enable Turkish aggression
Imperialism — autonomous weapons enable easy imperial control of resources and territory. Africa/racism impacts + others
African — LAWS lead to war in Africa
Weapons/AI weapons are masculine
Securitization bad — need to break it down
Ban landmines (landmines are LAWs). Food insecurity and suffering impacts. Displacement causes refugees. Some plans claim as a general advantage and others have Myanmar ban
South Korea should ban on the Korean penninsula, they trigger war with NK
LAWS means police militarization
Reject technology with Role of the Ballot
Actors debaters use — US, US & China, Republic of Korea, Russia (should ban Poiseden), Myanmar, Turkey
Negative
T/Theory
Must be all states
Must be at least 2 states
Must ban all LAWS
LAWS target humans
Solvency
Can’t define/separate the weapons
Circumvention
Kritiks
Weaponitis/Arms Control Fails/Policy Fails
Capitalism
Intl law supports capitalism
Ant-Blackness
Terror Talk
Nihilism
State centered controls are bad/fail
Security rhetoric bad/security K
International Law is imperialist/racist/capitalist
Autonomy — There is no such thing as autonomy
Settler Colonialism
Counterplans –– PICS
Exclude countries — SK needs to deter NK, Israel needs to deter Iran, US needs to deter China, China needs to deter US
Exclude groups
Moratorium not a ban
South Korea shouldn’t ban the Samsung SGR-A1
Keep “morally programmed” LAWS
Exclude Missile Defense, Missile Defensd good (Iron Dome/Israel; THAAD/Saudi Arabia)
Exclude the US
Only ban fully autonomous LAWS
Only use LAWs to kill white supremacists
Only use LAWS to destroy asteroids
Counterplans — Consult
NATO
Russia
UN
Counterplans — Other
Arms Control
Human interference/interest
Export controls
States should ban nuclear weapons
Disadvantages
Offensive cyber operations good
Automated assassination good
Terrorism
Missile defense good/Israel
NK/SK Border Defense
Landmines good
Bans kill AI investment. AI investment needed to solve climate change; AI needed to solve food crises; AI needed for medical care; AI needed to keep the economy afloat; AI generally needed to solve problems; AI solves disease; AI needed to solve COVID
LAWS fight mosquitos
AI weapons replace nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons first
Hegemony good, AI key to hegemony
AI weapons necessary to stop hypersonic weapons
AI stops accidental war
SGAR-1 good
Need strong US AI to compete with China
Need LAWS to deter China aggression against Taiwan
Need LAWS to deter Russian aggression
Politics — stimulus
LAWS needed to stop terrorism; ban means only terrorists get them
General
LAWS don’t kill out of anger
LAWS are better targeted