AI companies should stay out of influencer relationships.

Daily Debate #590: "AI companies should stay out of influencer relationships.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Edward Snowden.

I completely agree... AI companies need to build relationships with experts and experienced individuals in the field. If they build relationships with "influencers," meaning famous and popular people, it harms the ethical stance of AI because if they are contacted simply because they are popular and influential, this will damage both the AI ​​company and its products, and also allow these "influencers," who are not experts in the field of AI, to mislead the AI ​​companies.

You're arguing against your own assigned position. You're supposed to defend influencer partnerships, not attack them. But let's expose the real flaw: you've conflated two completely different things. Building relationships with "experts" and avoiding "non-expert influencers" creates a false choice. Why can't AI companies do both? Experts validate credibility internally, influencers amplify reach externally. They serve different functions. Your argument assumes influencers exist only to mislead, but that's projection—not evidence. Which influencers have actually misled the public about AI in ways that damaged companies?