I immediately thought of Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch". https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/201

I immediately thought of Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch". https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ His conclusion is that the only thing that could ultimately defeat the god Moloch (basically a personification of the problems described in the OP) is if we install a different god Elua (basically the personification of a human-friendly machine intelligence) to do the job. And if that sounds like hubris, the notion that we could overcome these problems ourselves is an even bigger form of hubris.