C1 / C2 conversation Topics



Technology

How do you know we aren’t living in a simulation ?
How will AI take over the world?
What needs to happen for AI to replace humanity as the dominant intelligence on the planet?
Will computers ever become concious?
Do you want to live forever?
If you could download your brain and upload it onto a clone of yourself, would you?
Will we see immortality within our lifetimes?
What is the next step in colonizing space?
Will we create artificial lifeforms?

Philosophy

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
What came first the chicken or the egg ?
What is consciousness?
Is there a meaning of life?

Culture

Have smart phones destroyed music?
If you could organise a music festivals with your favourite artists dead or alive, who would play? Who would headline?
Does social media diminish or enhance culture?



Government

Why are microstates so successful ?
Is there such a thing as free speech ?
Does the rise of surveliance by governments worry you?

Sport
Why is rugby the best sport ever invented ?
Who is G.O.A.T in any given sport?

Youth

Has there ever been a better time to be young?


Environment

Do you pick up and dispose of other people’s litter ?
What are the biggest existential threats facing humanity ?
What technologies are the most important in preventing climate change?
Why don’t/do you drive an Electric car?
What is your carbon footprint?

Fashion

Which country is the most fashionable ?

Politics

What laws do we need to get rid of ?
Why are teachers predominantly left-wing?
What are the main political parties in your country?
How old were you when you first voted?