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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Dune's warnings of AI have only been touched upon in Dune: Prophecy, but it's essential to understanding this franchise

Emily Watson as Valya Harkonnen in Dune: Prophecy.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy episodes 1 and 2.

Set 10,000 years before the era of Paul Atreides, Dune: Prophecy begins in the shadow of the Butlerian Jihad: a massive war between humans and "thinking machines," which led to the outlawing of AI.

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