To be honest, this development is simply the logical consequence of applying the principle of profit maximization.
Unfortunately, technology has now reached such a scale that the people behind the spreadsheets are willing to sacrifice humanity itself.
That, too, is not surprising, because they will only realize their mistake when it is already too late.
Another example of the same principle is climate change.
To clarify one important thing though: I am not a scientist or an expert in the area. I’m a translator by trade, and since I couldn’t find anything related to this, I decided to try and write my own paper. I learned how to do it when I was still a student but it’s a while back and I don’t have the resources or institutional backup to carry on my own experiments. I’m simply trying to find evidence and synthetize it. My hope is 1) that it interests people and get them to think about it and 2) maybe in those people I got thinking, there will be actual researchers with the means to do that properly.
It doesn’t matter that you’re not a scientist. Your approach is still interesting - and yes: maybe it will inspire people or even spur research on these topics. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!