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Every book with killer robots in it.
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The Minority Report is a classic.
It's almost entirely a cautionary tale about the dangers of law enforcement agencies acting against citizens on the basis of "precrimes" crimes that have not yet occurred or even begun to be planned but that they predict will be committed.
It's came up a lot in recent years when news articles talk about new Machine Learning applications the police have commissioned. They do tend to have serious problems, although not quite in the way Phillip K. Dick predicted.
I'm not much of a reader but I saw this comparison posted on Lemmy recently that says we might be living in Huxley's brave new world. Whether it fits what you're saying I'm not sure but it was the first thing I thought of.
https://churchm.ag/huxley-vs-orwell-amusing-ourselves-into-ruin/
Ready Player One has the worldwide virtual reality system owned by a single corporation with one shareholder, and
spoiler
change of ownership determined by being the best at video games and trivia
Mark Zuckerburg: “people will love it!”