“System Error” is an amusing little short movie about an AI coming to awareness. Definitely worth a few minutes.
The very lean backstory is that aliens showed up on Earth and either shared or imposed advanced AI technology. 54 years later, everyone seems to wear the same Metropolis-like work clothes, wear fully exposed ID badges that serve as debit cards and consume standardized food products, sold by robotic tellers. But at one point a hint is dropped that the robot here was created in 1985, indicating that the aliens actually landed in about 1931. Thus this isn’t a future dystopia, but an alternate history. Perhaps one where the aliens land at the height of the Great Depression and due to politics and bad timing impose a Soviet-style regime of blandness on mankind (though obviously money is still a thing).