Public doesn't trust AI and it doesn't trust the tech sector

[DasKleineTeilchen]

@beschizza

“The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines,” Leto said. “Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.”

You can call me AI

the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future, which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots. With the prohibition “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind,” the creation of even the simplest thinking machines is outlawed and made taboo, which has a profound influence on the socio-political and technological development of humanity in the Dune series

[RickMycroft]

Those were dangerous because they worked. These are especially dangerous because they don’t.

“Thou shall not market snake-oil as bottled intelligence.”

[Dasylupe]

Since we’re referring to Frank Herbert’s work here, I’m surprised no one is bringing up his Jesus Incident series. That was… something. I was so sad when I finished the Dune series as a teenager that I read a ton of his other books and let me tell you… he had some interesting ideas.