If you’ve been paying any attention to the media over the past year or so, you might get the impression that it’s only a matter of time before the threat of artificial intelligence comes to destroy us all.

From big summer blockbusters like Avengers: Age of Ultron and Johnny Depp’s stink-fest Transcendence, to smaller, indie flicks like Ex-Machina or Channel 4’s hit drama Humans, screenwriters seemingly can’t get enough of the trope that no matter what form AI eventually takes in the next few decades, you can bet it’ll be hell bent on teaching humanity a lesson about falling victim to its own hubris.