Problem Discussion
Having problems isn't scary, especially foreseeable problems like this. What's scary is acting rashly when there are no problems. When someone raises a problem, someone naturally has to find a solution.
Firstly, at the meeting, the model of deploying warships was the first to receive a relatively definite answer. Although such discussions should not typically result in the determination of decisive measures, matters concerning military affairs are generally not subject to the same level of public consultation as other matters.
Therefore, in military matters, as long as Yue Yuan and the key members of the Command Department reached an agreement, it was basically settled.
For example, the warship mode that was just proposed. In fact, before this military person at the meeting raised this question, Yue Yuan and the members of the Command Department had already had several rounds of internal discussions on it after receiving the news that Strong Artificial Intelligence had been successfully created.
Therefore, as soon as this problem arose, the answer was immediately available.
Yue Yuan turned on the microphone on his desk and said, "It has been confirmed that the warships will still be operated by humans in the traditional mode. However, this does not mean that we will not use Strong Artificial Intelligence in combat. On the contrary, most of our warships will be unmanned and controlled by Strong Artificial Intelligence."
The Command Department believes that the future fleet organization and combat modes will undergo significant changes due to the emergence of Strong Artificial Intelligence. However, this significant change does not mean that we will abandon the model of humans directly operating warships, because everyone surely remembers the Awakeners.
Yue Yuan wanted to explain, but he felt that mentioning the Awakeners would make everyone understand. If anyone didn't understand, he didn't bother to explain. As long as the military personnel understood, that was enough.
The Awakeners are a respectable Level Six Civilization, an existence capable of traveling from the Triangulum Galaxy to the Milky Way Galaxy. That's true interstellar travel, a world apart from humans who can only travel along star-by-star routes.
Even powerful beings like the Awakeners still have individual life forms dominating their warships, with their Strong Artificial Intelligence playing a supporting role.
If such a powerful being persists in this model, what reason does humanity have to give up? Moreover, Yue Yuan doesn't want humanity to truly become an entity that relies on Strong Artificial Intelligence for everything, especially in the military, where human leadership is essential in all circumstances.
And most importantly, even Strong Artificial Intelligence cannot compare to humans in terms of strategy and certain impromptu decisions.
After a pause, glancing at everyone's expressions, Yue Yuan continued, "Therefore, the Command Department has decided that future warship formations will no longer be based on large numbers of manned warships. Instead, each warship will be separated, becoming a communication and control hub for the entire warship group, radiating outwards to control a group of Unmanned Warship. Each core warship will be equipped with an auxiliary Strong Artificial Intelligence pilot, which will control the remaining warships in a manner consistent with the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness."
After Yue Yuan explained it, everyone immediately understood.
To put it simply, this model is like having manned warships sitting in the center of a swarm of bees, with the help of Strong Artificial Intelligence to connect the entire warship network and control these Unmanned Warships to fight like various bees and wasps.
In this way, even if the entire warship group is destroyed, only one manned warship will be lost, and it is even possible to escape from the battlefield, thus minimizing the loss of personnel in the war.
This model can also combine the strengths of humans and Strong Artificial Intelligence to the greatest extent, thereby unleashing the powerful combat capabilities of the warship cluster.
This is the best warship formation model currently determined by the Command Department.
This model can not only greatly enhance human combat effectiveness, but also allow human military power to be no longer constrained by population, resulting in a crazy explosion.
Imagine that each manned warship carries 100,000 Unmanned Warship. If humanity had two or three thousand manned warships, wouldn't they be able to mass-produce troops and increase the number of warships to a terrifying number?
Conversely, if Level 3 Civilization could create Strong Artificial Intelligence, then wars between Level 3 Civilization would be a contest of hundreds of millions of warships—truly a sea of steel.
This shows that even if Level 3 Civilization does not have a technological advantage far exceeding that of Level 2 Civilization, its sheer numbers alone are enough to overwhelm Level 2 Civilization.
Because of the existence of Strong Artificial Intelligence, productivity is also on an order of magnitude greater.
If humanity didn't understand before why True Nanotechnology was a hallmark of Level 3 Civilization, it now does. With True Nanotechnology combined with Strong Artificial Intelligence, productivity will increase exponentially.
Furthermore, it broke the constraint of the Civilized Person limiting the number of warships.
It's fair to say that once these technological civilizations truly reach Level 3 Civilization, transforming themselves into Artificial Intelligence Civilization capable of causing cosmic catastrophes, as depicted in legends, would likely not be a problem.
It's not impossible that they could even confront a powerful Artificial Intelligence Civilization with infinite self-replication.
From this perspective, once a technological civilization truly reaches the level of Level 3 Civilization, the Artificial Intelligence Civilization, which is one of the Cosmic Disaster depicted in movies and TV shows or legends, does not seem to be such a terrifying existence.
The reason why Moke Star Civilization were destroyed by their own Strong Artificial Intelligence was entirely because they deployed it without mastering a way to defend against Strong Artificial Intelligence betrayal. In other words, they didn't realize that Strong Artificial Intelligence betrayal was a major hurdle for Level 3 Civilization, a filter that eliminates inferior Level 3 Civilization.
The development of the Nair Civilization shows that not all civilizations are as tragically forced to venture into space as humans are, nor do all civilizations encounter various other civilizations and greatly broaden their horizons once they set foot in space, as humans do.
With the issues concerning the warships resolved, the meeting then shifted to discussing how human society should respond to the emergence of Strong Artificial Intelligence.
Some scholars believe that the New Government should not abruptly replace human workers with Robot Laborer in all their current manual labor, engineering, machine operation, equipment operation, and even those who traditionally make a living through their skills. Instead, a gradual process is necessary. Furthermore, the New Government should establish corresponding systems to ensure that these individuals can smoothly transition to other occupations after losing their original jobs.
For example, we could offer training opportunities in design, art, literature, and innovation, allowing interested individuals to pursue these careers. Similarly, we could offer opportunities like "returning to school," giving those aspiring to scientific research a second chance during compulsory education for various reasons.
That's a good suggestion. The human population is now nearly 200 million, but the shortage of Research Personnel is still very large in the face of increasingly complex Credits and research paths.
Moreover, science and technology are not something that can be done by one Research Team in one research direction. It requires the joint efforts of many Research Team. After all, that increases the margin for error, increases the probability of accidentally discovering new technologies, and also creates a competitive relationship among them.
Therefore, the New Government would love for a research project to have dozens or even hundreds of Research Team dedicated to it! Of course, in order to keep humanity motivated after the advent of Artificial Intelligence, it is necessary to introduce some preferential policies for scientific research. After all, only by offering preferential treatment can we motivate those who are content with enjoying a certain level of distribution.
As mentioned before, if everyone relies on Robot Laborer and lives a life of ease, and everyone's status and treatment are the same, then what's the point of working hard, unless everyone is a saint?
Therefore, this so-called treatment policy needs to be carefully considered.
The scholars who proposed these ideas seemed to have already prepared their terms, and at the conference, they each expressed their own insights and suggestions.