India | April 16, 2026 — The Indian Debating League launched AugLi.AI—Debate with AI at Dogra Hall, IIT Delhi, through a live student demonstration featuring a 1-on-1 debate with AI on the motion: “This House Believes That AI Is Likely to Be a Better World Leader Than Human Beings.”
AugLi.AI, India’s first Student AI Debater, enables students to engage in real-time debates with AI or peers while receiving structured feedback on reasoning, rebuttal quality, clarity of thought, and overall argument strength. As access to information becomes easier through AI, the ability to question, analyze, and defend ideas is emerging as a key differentiator for students.
“AugLi.AI has been built on a simple belief: as access to intelligence becomes more widespread, the real edge will lie in how well students can question, structure, and defend their thinking—not just access information,” said Anjali Tiwary, Founder & CEO, Indian Debating League. “We see this as a way to make structured thinking more accessible, consistent, and scalable for students across contexts.”
Over the past 2–3 years, after running 150+ tournaments and engaging more than 100,000 students, the Indian Debating League arrived at the realization that the pace at which this generation needs to build judgment, reasoning, and articulation simply cannot be matched by traditional, human-led models alone. And the cognitive divide was becoming glaring with the advent of AI models. This is precisely why AugLi.ai was built—not to incrementally improve access, but to fundamentally accelerate the skill-building journey.
It shifts debate from being an episodic, tournament-based activity to a continuous, daily practice. “For the first time, technology enables this at scale. Much like Chess.com transformed chess into a global daily habit, we now have the opportunity to build a “Debate for all – AugLi.ai” for the world said as Kamal Kashyap as he unveiled AugLi.ai in Dogra Hall IIT Delhi. The demand is already evident, particularly in mature markets like the U.S. where debate is deeply embedded within school systems, and on the supply
side, AI changes the equation entirely enabling simulated opponents, real-time feedback, and infinitely scalable practice. This is the inflection point where debate evolves from an elite pursuit into a daily cognitive gym for millions.
The Indian Debating League said AugLi.AI is intended to complement, not replace, traditional debate formats by enabling more consistent practice beyond classrooms and competitions. This launch builds on the organisation’s broader ecosystem, which already engages over 100,000 students across 120+ cities through tournaments, AI-enabled feedback systems, and structured communication platforms.
Access Live Debating demo with AI at: https://augli.ai/one_on_one
