 Many of these negative portrayals (and a few of the positive portrayals) involve an AI seizing control from its creators.In "Frankenstein" (1818), Dr. Frankenstein declines to build a mate to his organic monster, for fear that "a race of devils would be propagated upon Earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror".Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" (1872) spends three chapters laying out the "Book of the Machines", based on the author's 1863 article "Darwin among the Machines", which states