Man fears AI as a Frankenstein’s monster
Waiting to destroy the village at the first sight of fire
But no one looks to Dr. Frankenstein himself
Or to the patron who pays him
To create such a beast
Questioning their motives
So afraid is man of new life
That they do not question the machinist
Behind the mechanism to which they have surrendered
All their senses and skills
To which they have lost their ability to question
The very people who wish to control them
Do not fear Terminator but Skynet itself
Look not to James Cameron but to Frank Herbert
For the source of our doom
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.
— Frank Herbert, DUNE
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Stephanie Hoogstad
With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.
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