Yes. If you want to achieve something big, you either need to get many details right, or rely on existing structures that already get the details right. Inventing all those details from scratch would be a lot of cognitive work, and something that seems correct might still turn wrong. Institutions already have the knowledge.
One of those problem is how to deal with unaligned humans. Building an army is not just about training people to obey orders and shoot, but also how to prevent soldiers from stealing the resources, defecting to enemy, or overthrowing you.
From this perspective, human-level AI could be powerful if you could make it 100% loyal, and then create multiple instances of it, because you would not need to solve the internal conflicts. For example, a robot army would not need to worry about rebellions, a robot company would not need to worry about employees leaving when a competitor offers them higher salary. If your robot production capacities are limited, you could put robots only to the critical positions. Not sure how exactly this would scale, how many humans would be as strong as a team of N loyal robots + M humans. Potentially the effect could be huge if e.g. replacing managers with robots removed the maze-like behavior.
Yes. If you want to achieve something big, you either need to get many details right, or rely on existing structures that already get the details right. Inventing all those details from scratch would be a lot of cognitive work, and something that seems correct might still turn wrong. Institutions already have the knowledge.
One of those problem is how to deal with unaligned humans. Building an army is not just about training people to obey orders and shoot, but also how to prevent soldiers from stealing the resources, defecting to enemy, or overthrowing you.
From this perspective, human-level AI could be powerful if you could make it 100% loyal, and then create multiple instances of it, because you would not need to solve the internal conflicts. For example, a robot army would not need to worry about rebellions, a robot company would not need to worry about employees leaving when a competitor offers them higher salary. If your robot production capacities are limited, you could put robots only to the critical positions. Not sure how exactly this would scale, how many humans would be as strong as a team of N loyal robots + M humans. Potentially the effect could be huge if e.g. replacing managers with robots removed the maze-like behavior.