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Originally Posted by Phantasm
I don't think everything will go full-on submarine. The physical and psychological standards for submariners are much higher than those of the surface ships, so what you gain in stealth you'd lose in overall eligible manpower. At some point someone will say "our Navy is under-manned because our standards are too high", at which point the reason those standards are in place will surface when people not suited for sub service gets assigned to one and flip out for some reason or other, which will raise some (probably very public) questions as to why the standards were lowered in the first place(!).
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That is not at all the case at TL 10 even without volitional AIs. In fact, Dedicated and Non-Volitional AIs would be superior to Volitional AIs for most submarine crew related tasks since they can have higher IQ for the same Complexity.
Even without using AIs at all, you could greatly reduce the number of crew with automation.