@koen_hufkens @pluralistic
I keep coming back to Frank Herbert's Dune on this, and wonder if I'll live long enough to experience our very own Butlerian Jihad.

"What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger."
- From God-Emperor of Dune

(Shameless self-promotion, but I wrote a bit on this theme playing Universal Paperclips https://write.as/the-casual-critic/universal-paperclips-the-banality-of-purpose )