Dune’s backstory is that they made bots in the past but the bots tried to kill all humans ( ) so that’s why there are mentats and guild navigators because they don’t have any computer smarter than a toaster left.
It’s more that humans became overly reliant on their machines and there was almost a religious movement to overthrow that reliance. Later books retconned this into classic ai killbots
Dune’s backstory is that they made bots in the past but the bots tried to kill all humans (
) so that’s why there are mentats and guild navigators because they don’t have any computer smarter than a toaster left.
It’s more that humans became overly reliant on their machines and there was almost a religious movement to overthrow that reliance. Later books retconned this into classic ai killbots