Friday, June 30, 2023

A Dune Reference

Instapundit Reynolds posts a link to the following article.

'Godfather of AI' Issues New Warnings Over Potential Risks to Society

To which Reynolds adds this humorous insider comment.

I’m not worrying until somebody named Butler declares a jihad.

To those of you who haven't read Dune, the Butlerian jihad is a Luddite uprising that destroyed all "thinking machines." After which they were banned in the universe in which the novel is set. 

Sometimes he relates this sort of post to Skynet, the evil supercomputer enemy in the Terminator films.