People are already misusing statistical models, in ways that are already causing harm to people.

See this HN thread from 2016[0], which also points to [1](a book) and [2](PDF).

I definitely agree with you that it's going to get a lot worse with AI, since it makes it harder to see that it is a statistical model.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12642432 [1]https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-In... [2]https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/biasincomputers.p...