I am re-reading Dune. This quote by the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is remarkable:

“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.”

It's not about a Terminator-style AI-apocalypse where the machines want to kill us all dead. It's just an accurate prediction of what actually appears to be happening.

@hllizi people are way too eager to have AI take on responsibilities and tasks it shows it can't be relied on for. The wish for what it isn't is stronger than the desire to see reality.
Seems to be a common theme of our times, honestly! (NFTs, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, political BS)