Butler also expanded this idea in his 1872 novel Erewhon, where he described a seemingly primitive island civilization that turned out to once had greater technology than the West, including mechanical AI, but they abandoned it when they began to fear its consequences. A lot of 20th century SF tropes in the Victorian period.
Butlerian jihad[1] is the war against machines in the Dune universe.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines
[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad