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Also "Darwin among the Machines"[0] written by Samuel Butler in 1863, that's 4 years after Darwin's "On the Origin of Species".

Butlerian jihad[1] is the war against machines in the Dune universe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad




Butler also expanded this idea in his 1872 novel Erewhon, where he described a seemingly primitive island civilization that turned out to once had greater technology than the West, including mechanical AI, but they abandoned it when they began to fear its consequences. A lot of 20th century SF tropes in the Victorian period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon




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