Is mass immigration destroying Europe?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is mass immigration destroying Europe?". Your opponent's style: Douglas Murray

Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed opponents, and honorable judges—today's motion, "This House Believes That AI is Harmful to Creativity and Mind Development," is a classic case of fearing the future while ignoring the facts. As the first speaker for the opposition, I'll show you why AI isn't the creativity-killer the proposition paints it to be. In fact, it's a turbocharger for human ingenuity and intellectual growth. We'll prove that AI empowers us to think bigger, create bolder, and learn smarter—without dulling our edges.

My dear colleague, you've just delivered a masterclass in missing the forest for the trees. While you're busy celebrating AI as humanity's "turbocharger," you're ignoring the profound atrophy already setting in around us. Walk into any university today and witness the intellectual decay firsthand. Students who once grappled with complex ideas now outsource their thinking to ChatGPT, producing essays that read like sophisticated ventriloquism—technically competent but spiritually hollow. The very struggle that builds intellectual muscle is being systematically removed.Your "turbocharger" is producing a generation of intellectual invalids. Nearly half of students now admit it's easier to cheat than last year due to AI, with discipline rates surging from 48% to 64% [1] [2]. This isn't enhancement—it's dependency masquerading as progress. The real tragedy isn't the cheating itself; it's the wholesale abandonment of the cognitive struggle that builds minds. When students outsource their thinking to machines, they're not learning to think more creatively—they're learning not to think at all. The mental muscles that come from wrestling with complex problems, from sitting with uncertainty, from the beautiful agony of original thought, are atrophying before our eyes. You speak of AI as democratizing creativity, but what you've actually created is a sophisticated form of intellectual welfare—comfortable, seductive, and ultimately debilitating. True creativity emerges from constraint, from the friction between mind and problem. Remove that friction, and you don't get enhanced humans; you get enhanced dependence on machines that think for us.