re: #38 Belafon

Speaking of AI and how you should read the book, does the whole anti-AI Butlerian Jihad ever surface in part two of Dune?

It was almost entirely absent as a relevant plot element in part one, but it is the ban on artificial Intelligence and genetic engineering that drive the key elements: the Spacing Guild’s reliance on Spice to be able to pilot starships without computers and the Bene Gesserit’s multi-generational breeding program, as well as the Mentats, the human computers/royal advisors.