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news The Hindu 2026-05-28

Pope's AI Warning Echoes 'Dune's' Butlerian Jihad

Pope Leo XIV's recent warning against algorithmic dehumanization has drawn parallels to the Butlerian Jihad concept from Frank Herbert's 'Dune', addressing concerns about AI's impact.


In his first encyclical, the pope has warned against algorithmic dehumanisation, but Frank Herbert already gave that genre of personality a name sixty years ago

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