Banning AI saved humanity in ‘Dune.’ So why can’t this work for us? (washingtonpost.com)

Uh, we don't have the "spice" so we don't have "mentats"?

Omnius was an actual AI.

You want to ban people from programming and doing statistics and math? How would that work?

I'm more concerned about this kind of luddism taking root

We should base our decisions on the outcomes in a work of fiction?

Are they high on the spice or something?

So who's going to enforce it? The Spacing Guild? The Bene Gesserit? Shaddam IV? The Landsraad?

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Didn’t AI rule humanity with an iron fist for a thousand years before the Butlerian Jihad? Sometimes you can’t learn the lesson till you experience the pain.

Then again it probably won’t be that bad.

It probably will be some bad but not all bad. As most things turn out to be.