Mastodawn

PURGE THE AI

Dune: the very concept of a sentient machine became abhorrent to humanity and they were obliterated by the Butlerian Jihad.

the very concept of a sentient machine

Of a thinking machine, period. Doesn’t need sentience. It’s why they use mentats/guild navigators instead of calculators and databases.

They hated thinking machines so much they turned humans into machines that… think… for them… guys, I may have learned a new thing about Dune!