Boeing Spent $43 Billion Optimizing the Wrong Metric. AI Is Doing the Same Thing.
Boeing replaced 'is the airplane safe?' with 'is the shareholder satisfied?' and spent $43.5 billion on buybacks while concealing MCAS from pilots. 346 people died. RLHF and AI benchmarks follow the same Goodhart's Law mechanism — optimizing proxies until they detach from reality. A 12-industry catalog and 5 diagnostic questions reveal whether your organization is on the same trajectory.