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by nemof 2682 days ago
i'm reminded of the prologue of Ian Bank's Excession which describes how a ship Mind (a vast incredibly powerful AI) is overwhelmed and subverted, its ship taken over by an excessive and overwhelming force, and only a solitary drone is able to make it off the ship after running a gambit as the force tries to stop the drone. most of the attack, the attempt to defend against it and the final hail mary by the drone takes place within thousands of a second.

also i'm reminded of battlestar galactica and how deeply distrustful they are of computers and tech because of everything that has happened to them.
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EForEndeavour 2682 days ago
Not to mention the Butlerian Jihad in the backstory of _Dune_, and the enduring ban on thinking machines. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad

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narrator 2682 days ago
There's also the attack of the evil AI known as "The Blight" in Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep."
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