Frank Herbert's take on this had humans enslaved for a few centuries before the Butlerian Jihad got humans back in control of themselves and instituted a ten th

Frank Herbert's take on this had humans enslaved for a few centuries before the Butlerian Jihad got humans back in control of themselves and instituted a ten thousand year taboo on 'thinking machines'. Sci-fi is great for postulating dystopian outcomes so we can at least anticipate bad choices and guard against them.