Do We Need Our Own Butlerian Jihad? (Kind Of)
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It Might Be Time to Shun Generative AI
(Jared Henderson wore this shirt to our latest livestream together and I had to use it for this post. Thanks Jared!) Artificial intelligence is getting out of hand… do we need our own Butlerian Jihad today? Well, yeah, we do—or we will soon. But what does that all that mean? Let’s start with The Butlerian Jihad. This is a fictional battle between humans and ‘thinking machines’ in Frank Herbert’s Dune Universe (Duniverse? What’s the official name for it?). Herbert introduces The Butlerian Jihad early in his novel Dune, in order to explain why there are no robots in his world and to set up…
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