the story of a city that started paying people for rat tails to eradicate the rat population, only for folks to start breeding rats instead to make money.

Or the real life story of the US elementary school students who saved up money to buy and then free slaves, which - when examined closer - was found to be driving growth in the slave trade, not slowing it down.

In both cases - you figure out what’s off kilter, and you stop doing that.

It’s a lot easier to turn off “AI machines” than, for instance, powerful industries like Oil and gas…