W ill speaking about violence get me banned?” asked a member of the Stop AI Discord chatroom in the early evening of Dec. 8, 2025. His username was Butlerian Jihadist, a reference to a human rebellion against machines in Dune.   His post caught the attention of a producer working for a podcast called The Last Invention , which was documenting debates about artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical form of AI that could surpass human intelligence. The reporter messaged Butlerian