Dune on C.CUI's Loghttps://cuicaihao.github.io/tags/dune/Recent content in Dune on C.CUI's LogHugoen-AUSun, 31 May 2026 07:00:00 +1000Will Humans Stop Thinking? Dune's 60-Year-Old Warning and Human Dignity in the AI Erahttps://cuicaihao.github.io/posts/2026-05-31-will-humans-stop-thinking-dunes-warning/Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:00 +1000https://cuicaihao.github.io/posts/2026-05-31-will-humans-stop-thinking-dunes-warning/Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi masterpiece Dune issued a stark warning: “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” Re-reading this prophecy alongside Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, we realize the real threat today is not whether machines can think, but whether humans will stop thinking. As we reduce ourselves to probability models and prioritize efficiency, we risk surrendering our agency. Ultimately, productivity defines our floor, but humanity determines our ceiling.