Butlerian jihadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Butlerian +‎ jihad (“holy war, crusade”), from the science fiction epic Dune (1965), in which a war had been waged in the Duneverse by the last free humans against autonomous ("thinking") machines. Butlerian refers to English novelist Samuel Butler, whose 1872 work Erewhon describes a society that destroys all complex machines preemptively out of fear of their replacement by those very machines.

名詞

Butlerian jihad (plural Butlerian jihads)

1. (artificial intelligence) A notional large-scale and vehement opposition to and suppression of artificial intelligence.
   • 2005, Michael Chorost, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, p. 33:

     Were there ever a Butlerian Jihad, he could probably melt into his native North Carolina backwoods and pass himself off as a soft-spoken farmer until he slipped and blurted out a phrase such as "CO2 laser stapedotomy" in polite company.

   • 2017, John Michael Greer, The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future, p. 180:

     What these first stirrings suggest to me, in fact, is that the way forward isn't a Butlerian jihad, but a Butlerian carnival—a sensuous celebration of the world outside the cubicle farms and the glass screens.

   • 2025 May 15, Ross Douthat, “An Interview With the Herald of the Apocalypse”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:

     Well, Daniel Kokotajlo, thank you so much. And I will see you on the front lines of the Butlerian Jihad soon enough.

使用する際の注意点

• Previously, this term was little known outside the context of the Dune science fiction franchise. It has since gained traction as a term in popular culture with the advent of powerful commercially-available machine-learning text-, image- and video-generating AIs in the early to mid-2020s.

参考

• Erewhonian

参照

Further reading

• Dune (franchise) § Butlerian Jihad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia