Dune’s Butlerian Jihad and the future of AI

MANILA, Philippines – Warner Bros. recently published a two-and-a-half-minute teaser for the final part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune film trilogy. As a science fiction fan who has read Frank Herbert’s original Dune novel and thoroughly enjoyed the first two parts of the trilogy, I can’t wait to see Paul Atreides as the galaxy’s new emperor this December. Why is there no AI in Dune? One thing that sets the world of Herbert’s Dune apart from other sci-fi stories is that he deliberately suppressed the advance of technology in favor of telling a deeply human tale without being bogged down by […]... Keep on reading: Dune’s Butlerian Jihad and the future of AI