"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot." --Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
He created Dilbert to do mildly-amusing nerd jokes, but his one flash of genius was to invite people to email them their workplace follies. The strip was at its best when hundreds of other people were writing the gags, and he cribbed from Jerry/George/Elaine to have Dilbert/Wally/Alice deliver them.
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Being hypnotized by AI is his escape hatch.
Like you said...he's an idiot.