Here's a random bit of fun prescience:
From Dune, by Frank Herbert:
> JIHAD, BUTLERIAN: (see also Great Revolt) — the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
The usual interpretation is something along the lines that AIs took over the thinking for the leaders, making the leaders lazy, impotent, and society fragile and chaotic. This fits with a lot of Herbert's themes.
But, from Children of Dune:
> Three — Planetary feudalism remained in constant danger from a large technical class, but the effects of the Butlerian Jihad continued as a damper on technological excesses. Ixians, Tleilaxu, and a few scattered outer planets were the only possible threat in this regard, and they were planet-vulnerable to the combined wrath of the rest of the Imperium. The Butlerian Jihad would not be undone. Mechanized warfare required a large technical class. The Atreides Imperium had channeled this force into other pursuits. No large technical class existed unwatched. And the Empire remained safely feudalist, naturally, since that was the best social form for spreading over widely dispersed wild frontiers — new planets.
Arguable paints a different picture - that the AI in the hands of the masses would be too threatening to the status quo.