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This is a gross overreach. Just stop.
I feel like the sci-fi trope of an ai that chews through everything in its way to achieve a single goal with no consideration for complexity or other factors isn’t sci-fi, but it also isn’t the ai that’s doing it. There are groups like the ESRB who simply want to reduce their job to a single goal with no consideration for complexity or other factors likely these children’s privacy (which should be one of ESRB’s goals, arguably).
Just like in those stories, these groups are chewing through other aspects of life that are absolutely significant in order to optimize a single metric to the exclusion of all else.
I just wrote a rant about exactly this phenomenon. Literally insane greed, and a sort of simple-minded myopic focus on setting goals based on easily understandable metrics that are ultimately based on wildly questionable premises (and might actually be counter to what the people at the top think they want to achieve) are why literally everything is going to shit.