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noun
A war waged in the Duneverse by the last free humans against autonomous (“thinking”) machines; the Great Revolt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
A notional large-scale and vehement opposition to and suppression of artificial intelligence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Qualifier: artificial intelligence
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Butlerian jihad
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
From Butlerian + jihad (“holy war, crusade”), from the science fiction epic Dune (1965). Butlerian refers to English novelist Samuel Butler, whose 1872 work Erewhon describes a society that destroys all complex machines preemptively out of fear of their replacement by those very machines.
