"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -- Frank Herbert, _Dune_

Are we free today? For example, I have to work for a living. If I don't, my family and I will be miserable. Let's just hope that future "men with machines" don't decide to kill the rest of us - I'm not sure what use we will be to them.

Your choice is corporations, government, or billionaires. One of those is going to be the "men with machines" that has use for the rest of us.

I think this is the key change. We’re already beholden to a “machine” (the economy) that none of us completely understand or control or created explicitly. It has its own goals and tendencies that emerged from the complexity.

What AI and robotics does is actually create a machine that has no use for humans at all. Ñ