> They extreme performance gap between human and AI is what will push these deployments towards more and more open-ended goals, as waiting for human input will

> They extreme performance gap between human and AI is what will push these deployments towards more and more open-ended goals, as waiting for human input will take too long. Well maybe. If you look at the actual close calls in the cold war, they came down a judgement call in the face of very uncertain data. There were two of these in 1983 alone. [0,1] To cite a possibly dubious analogy, array processors beat the pants off conventional CPUs in terms of performance but most databases still depend on standard CPUs because processing is gated by ability to obtain information (I/O). Speed is not everything. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83