Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are Filipino nationals employed abroad on temporary or contractual bases. As of 2023, approximately 1.96 million Filipinos are deployed overseas annually, with concentrations in the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, and North America. Key sectors include domestic work, seafaring, healthcare, and construction.

The "model minority" stereotype refers to a social narrative in which certain immigrant or ethnic minority groups are portrayed as highly successful, law-abiding, hardworking, and academically or economically prosperous.

For the purposes of this debate, the Indian Subcontinent refers to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka

"Best available option" refers to realistically attainable partners within one's social, cultural, and temporal context

<div>In the context of AI, the open-source paradigm refers to making an AI system’s model weights, code, and training data (where possible) publicly accessible, allowing anyone to use, modify, and redistribute them.</div><div><br></div><div>The closed-source paradigm keeps the AI system’s underlying code, model weights, and/or training data proprietary and confidential, limiting access to select partners or internal teams.</div>

For the purposes of this debate, being "born into adulthood" means that an individual experiences full consciousness, memory, and can meaningfully perceive and relate to one's identity, for the first time, at an adult age. For the avoidance of doubt, these individuals have the full cognitive and physical capacities of an average adult — including language and reasoning — but no memories or experiences prior to their first moment of consciousness.