“The [automatic machine/artificial intelligence] is not frightening because of any danger that it may achieve autonomous control over humanity... Its real danger is the quite different one that such machines, though helpless by themselves, may be used by a human being or a block of human beings to increase their control over the rest of the human race.”
#NorbertWiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

@jack 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.

Frank Herbert, Dune

#GBOD

@davew Yeah, Herbert seems to have been influenced by both Wiener’s popular work and Butler’s Darwin Among the Machines