alt Hacker NewsWe don’t have to make that number a goal. Contrary to popular pessimistic thought, not everything we measure becomes a goal. Most things we measure are actually ignored.
I think to pre-emptively disregard research like this because “well it could be misused” is folly
Things that can be measured easily are often transformed into goals. Hence standardized test scores for measuring education, and number of papers published to measuring a researcher's performance.
AI makes it even easier while simultaneously removing accountability to the managers using it. And there will always be managers who will use such tools. Couple this with AI vendors and their cash piles lobbying every public and private institutions like crazy and the foreseeable is easy to foresee.