simpleminded

“Most people think chickens are simpleminded, but a bit of patient instruction goes a long way, as you well know. This group can perform three different synchronized dance routines in contrasting rhythmic patterns. Let me show you.”

Weizenbaum warned that the “reckless anthropomorphization of the computer” — that is, treating it as some sort of thinking companion — produced a “simpleminded view of intelligence.”

They use that intelligence — which is part of what corrupted them — to prey on more simpleminded folk who are virtuous.

"The classic American conspiracy theory always has an evil leader or group of leaders who are unfathomably powerful. These evildoers are brainiacs, they're incredibly intelligent, but they use that intelligence to prey on more simpleminded folk who are virtuous."

Weizenbaum warned that the “reckless anthropomorphization of the computer” — that is, treating it as some sort of thinking companion — had produced a “simpleminded view ... of intelligence.”