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File Name | S22-Policy-Stoa-63-NEG-XKeyScore.docx |
File Size | 217.51 KB |
Date added | February 28, 2022 |
Category | Archived, Policy (Stoa) |
Author | Vance Trefethen |
Resolved: The United States federal government substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology
Case Summary: The AFF plan bans the National Security Agency from using XKeyScore. It’s a program that collects lots of data from the internet, aggregates it, and allows analysts to run queries on it to find out information about people. XKeyScore is a lot more than AI, so Affirmatives don’t really have jurisdiction to abolish it. And most of the details are secret, so we really don’t know whether there’s sufficient justification for abolishing it right now. Between 2014 and 2020 there was an oversight committee that investigated XKeyScore. The majority submitted a (secret, classified, unpublished) report to Congress. Nobody knows what it said but we know it didn’t recommend abolishing XKeyScore. How do we know? Because one of the minority dissenters on the committee (Travis LeBlanc) also published an unclassified commentary on the report, in which he said the majority were not critical enough of the program (he couldn’t have said that if the secret report had recommended abolishing XKeyScore). LeBlanc says the majority did a shoddy job of only halfway investigating it, and missed key issues. One of the key things they missed, according to LeBlanc, was investigating XKeyScore’s use of AI. He says we need a lot more study to really figure out what’s going on. This brief offers a Negative counterplan to do just that. Negative philosophy is that AFF is rushing into a policy change without enough information to make the right decision. Study it according to LeBlanc’s recommendations and then in 3 years have Congress do whatever the new study recommends (nothing, or reform, or abolish).
Suggested strategy: Read the first 3 pages of this brief in the 1NC. Then run the Harm and Solvency responses from later in the brief in 2NC and let 1NR respond to 2AC’s answers to the Counterplan.