Peter Watts novel Starfish, a stunning quarter century old now, has exactly that problem as part of its side plot. In a chilling detail relevant to today, it po

Peter Watts novel Starfish, a stunning quarter century old now, has exactly that problem as part of its side plot. In a chilling detail relevant to today, it posits a black-box trainable neural network (biological in the book but an irrelevant difference overall) tasked with solving some of the big issues, which makes subtle links and determinations in the model which eventually end up potentially disastrous for human kind.