Dune's 1960s Warning on Handing Thinking to Machines Resurfaces in AI Debate
umeshonai · x · 2026-10-26
A post resurfaces Frank Herbert's famous Dune line from the 1960s: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" — read by many as a prescient warning for today's AI centralization debates.
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