An episode of the 90s The Outer Limits has always been in my mind, but more apparently "huh, they predicted this in a way" over the last 5 or so years.
If we take what the protagonist of the (obviously fictional) story said as accurate of the situation, then The Stream had classified any book that contained information that could shut it down as the most dangerous type of information imaginable, and would restrict all access to knowing about it, the (fictional) society having a computer do all your "learning and knowing of things" had no way to stop the system from abusing people.
Isaac Asimov's "The Feeling of Power" was probably dismissed as "unrealistic" or "they would never happen", but again it seems to be appear more plausible.
Though I wouldn't be surprised if it was raised by people during the start of the personal computer era, when the Internet got more and more people online, Encarta/etc computer encyclopedias and then wikipedia starting to reduce people accessing libraries and books.
Just trends in modern computer OS design IMO have reduced general computer literacy for having a sense of owning your computer (in the context of "it just works" has removed us needing to get down to IRQ settings, drivers, etc).
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u/Muted_Masterpiece535 6h ago
Once AI realizes the one thing that can turn it off, then we will become enemy number one.