2 seems more worrying than reassuring. If you have to rely on human action, you’ll be slowed down. So AI’s who can route around humans, or humans who can delegate more decision-making to AI systems, will have a competitive advantage over AIs that don’t do that. If we’re talking about AGI + decent robotics, there’s in principle nothing that AIs need humans for.
3: “useless without full information” is presumably hyperbole, but I also object to weaker claims like “being 100x faster is less than half as useful as you think, if you haven’t considered that spying is non-trivial”. Random analogy: Consider a conflict (e.g. a war or competition between two firms) except that one side (i) gets only 4 days per year, and (ii) gets a very well-secured room to discuss decisions in. Benefit (ii) doesn’t really seem to help much against the disadvantage from (i)!
2 seems more worrying than reassuring. If you have to rely on human action, you’ll be slowed down. So AI’s who can route around humans, or humans who can delegate more decision-making to AI systems, will have a competitive advantage over AIs that don’t do that. If we’re talking about AGI + decent robotics, there’s in principle nothing that AIs need humans for.
3: “useless without full information” is presumably hyperbole, but I also object to weaker claims like “being 100x faster is less than half as useful as you think, if you haven’t considered that spying is non-trivial”. Random analogy: Consider a conflict (e.g. a war or competition between two firms) except that one side (i) gets only 4 days per year, and (ii) gets a very well-secured room to discuss decisions in. Benefit (ii) doesn’t really seem to help much against the disadvantage from (i)!