That was actually likely to happen at one point - either in the Soviet Union through OGAS [1] which was rejected due to bureaucratic politics, or Chile's Projec

That was actually likely to happen at one point - either in the Soviet Union through OGAS [1] which was rejected due to bureaucratic politics, or Chile's Project Cybersyn which was cancelled due to, uh, American interests. It would have been extremely interesting to see what a planned economy utilising cybernetics and rudimentary ML would've been capable of, especially as the technology improved. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn