Cybernetics and systems engineering certainly has to make a comeback if we are to solve coordination problems like this at planetary scale. It deeply saddens me that we almost reached a popular acceptance of cybernetics in the 60s, but it passed us by - we'd be in a much better position now if it had become a mainstream science in the way that other, much less useful sciences have.
As I see from reading a little about the field's history and the literature, it suffered the same fate of other endeavors that are complex and still have a lot to be solved.
people become interested in it, try to find simpler 'popular' formulation and then the watered down versions become more popular than the original more complex version that need more rigor and discipline.
the watered down versions become more popular but without the rigor and discipline, you can argue and conclude everything and they opposite with these tools.
so people on the outside see the field as yet another fad and the whole field die down taking down with it the original version.
much like in AI with everyone labeling their stuff as AI which dilute the term more and more as time passes.
what Cybernetics and systems engineering needs is a rebranding and separation from the more 'soft' side that developed latter.
this is where I think some researchers on category theory like Jules Hedges might help. it would help defining dynamical and more general system in a vague but still formal way, say with a computer proof assistant sort of tool.
Systems theory is the rebrand of cybernetics IMHO. Cybernetics got diluted as a concept sure to its association with technology and scifi - AI, the Internet, and cyberpunk fiction devices like cyborgs and implants grew out of it and the original ideas got forgotten because they are more difficult to learn, being a very different (as in in addition, not in negation) perspective to the odd mix of scientific materialism and cartesian dualism we have in the West.
Who was I, a man whose proudest ancestor had led a life in a Moslem community, to identify myself exclusively with West against East? - Norbert Weiner, MIT maths professor and philosopher, an American of Prussian Jewish extraction, founder of cybernetics and seminal work in control theory, referring to a philosopher/rabbi ancestor born in Cordova and domiciled in Cairo as physician to the Vizier of Egypt
Machine teachers who work on machine teaching. The current models don't learn on their own, they have to be force fed tasks with tons of data, so teaching fits better than learning.
AI engineering?
Cybernetic engineering?
Data engineering?