Autonomous drones whirr through the cloudy sky, searching the devastated metropolis for survivors. Hidden in cellars and holes in the ground, it is only their will to survive and their belief in a better world that keeps the remaining population standing up to the artificial superintelligence that dominates everything. The scenario that is strained by dystopian science fiction films looks something like this – and is haunting the minds of many people once more because of the AI hype.