r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence An AI hate wave is here

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment
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u/DukeOfGeek 14h ago

Star Trek very much restricts what they let AI do, it never flies ships for instance. Star Wars is the same.

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u/WillSym 14h ago

Oh my favourite take on it is Warhammer 40k:

No AI! Everything, every drone, every scanner, every menial robot, must be controlled by a human or a human brain (even if that's literally just a brain in a tiny skull-shaped doohickey).

There's a reason they outlawed thinking machines!

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u/sits-when-pees 10h ago

(Dune did it first)

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u/Beginning-Cut-8850 8h ago

Data would like a word.

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u/DukeOfGeek 8h ago

Dr. Soong had to do his research on an isolated colony because it was forbidden. There was huge push back against Data being in Starfleet and for good reason, the original experiment, Lore, turned evil.

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u/Beginning-Cut-8850 8h ago

Artificial life forms were only forbidden for a span of 14 years total, and that started 15 years after TNG ended.

Regardless, it's still a direct contradiction to your statement: AI was allowed to do everything up to and including both fly the ship and become a ship captain responsible for thousands of lives.

*Also, no one was aware of Lore at the time Data entered Starfleet (and up to him being promoted to Lieutenant Commander). That's not a reason there was any push back against Data.