[Communitivity]

Have you read the books?

The Butlerian Jihad was a backlash and threw humanity into chaos lasting two generations, and the only things that brought humanity out of that chaos in two generations were two fictional societies based on Spice. Our chaos would last many generations, think another Dark Ages.

AI is going to get created, accept it. Someone somewhere will create an artificial general intelligence, if they haven't already. The first group to do that will shape the course of history for centuries to come, for good or ill. This is because a jump of a few weeks between the first AI and the second is enough to give the first AI an insurmountable lead, barring major improvements in technology (which the AI might get to first).

The question is then, which group will get to AI first, people who want to help mankind (perhaps quietly behind the scenes), or people who want to control mankind. The AI will learn from them and act accordingly. I'd like to think OpenAI is a good group to win the race, but I don't know.