As present in the imagination as politics, the pandemic or climate change, AI has become part of the narrative for a growing number of novelists and short story writers who only need to follow the news to imagine a world upended.
As present in the imagination as politics, the pandemic or climate change, AI has become part of the narrative for a growing number of novelists and short story writers who only need to follow the news to imagine a world upended.
AI has been a part of stories since before the idea of computers. In the (really incredible in terms of worldbuilding) 1930 novel Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon writes a section where humans build giant artificial brains which end up taking over and making humans their slaves.
So this is at least 93 years too late and there could be earlier examples.