[lambdaone]

This is pretty much the backstory of Dune. In the first novel, the character Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam says:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[gausswho]

Further ruminations: https://syndekit.substack.com/p/the-butlerian-jihad-has-begu...