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* Natalie's house in ''Film/HomeAlone4''.

* The 2015 [=McFly=] residence in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.
* In the ''Film/IronMan'' films, Jarvis the butler is changed to JARVIS, the AI that controls Tony's Smart House.
* In the 1984 film ''Film/ElectricDreams'', another computer who ran the house grew envious of its owner's relationship with the downstairs hottie, and did mean things to him. This was a comedy, though, so it was nothing too drastic.
* The Disney Channel TV-movie ''Film/SmartHouse'', in which the owners are locked in by the [[AIISACrapshoot overprotective AI]] PAT.

* ''Literature/GalaxyZack'': When the Nelsons move into their new house in "Hello, Nebulon!", they discover it has an A.I. controlling it. It gives each of them their own personal meals at dinner time, agrees to wake Zack up with his favourite song (Rockin' Round the Stars by Retro Rocket), and gets Zack up for school the next day.
* Creator/RayBradbury's story "Literature/ThereWillComeSoftRains" is about a Smart House that continues to carry out its daily routine, unable to tell that its inhabitants had been killed in a nuclear war.
* Another Creator/RayBradbury story, "Literature/TheVeldt," involves a family living an automated house called "The Happylife Home," in which the children can project their thoughts onto the nursery to create a customized simulated environment.
* ''Franchise/DoctorWho'';
** In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheAlsoPeople The Also People]]'', the People's houses all work like this. The later book ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHappyEndings Happy Endings]]'' has a scene where one of the People is at a wedding reception on Earth, and casually lets go of her plate in mid air. When it smashes to the ground she says "Sorry, I forgot you have such dumb houses."
** The ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'' novel, ''[[Recap/NewSeriesAdventuresSickBuilding Sick Building]]'' had The Doctor and Martha visit a planet whose only inhabitants were a family who lived in a forcefield-protected mansion where an A.I. controlled an army of robots who do everything for them. Everything works fine until the A.I. realizes the planet's going to be destroyed and the family are leaving without it.
* ''Literature/DemonSeed'' by Creator/DeanKoontz features a Smart House that later becomes a SapientHouse when an experimental AI hacks in through a remote terminal.

* Nara Oxham's AI-house in ''Literature/TheSuccessionDuology''.
* In Jay Williams' ''Danny Dunn and the Automatic House'' Danny and his friends get trapped in the 60s version of one of these when the voice-activated door refuses to open.
* Creator/SJPerelman's short comedy piece "Dial 'H' for Heartburn" centers around a guy setting up a phone-controlled prototype version of this in his mistress's apartment. She gets sick of it in short order as he's a bit of a ControlFreak and keeps tweaking settings remotely (an iron temperature that's good for his suits scorches her dress, for example). HilarityEnsues when his wife finds the "little black book" he keeps the control codes in...

* Wayne Szalinski turned his house into a Smart House in the ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' TV series. It eventually decides that in order to protect the Szalinskis, it needs to kill them.
* In the series ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', SARAH, the AI that controls Carter's house is stable and helpful, until the brutal military AI that the programmer based her on comes to the surface. Oh, and she's voiced by Fargo, just doing a female voice.
* In one episode of 70s BritCom ''Series/SomeMothersDoAveEm'', the rather 'special' protagonist Frank Spencer (Michael Crawford) is a guest at a house where all of the fixtures and fittings are computer-controlled. In his usual inimitable manner Frank manages to completely wreck the place in half an hour.

* The ChristmasEpisode of ''Series/BlackMirror'' ("Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteChristmas") features one where you create a mental copy of yourself to control your own house. So if you like to wake up to a certain song, demand your toast is done a certain way and are all-around fussy, then who better than yourself to make everything perfect? The catch, however, is that said mental copy is in every way like you and so isn't content to be your personal servant; the way to make them "compliant" is sensory deprivation to the extent where they will beg for even the most mundane of tasks to keep them entertained. You're basically torturing yourself to get a slightly less stressful life.

* ''Series/ClassOf09'': Poet lives in one by the 2020s, which has automated systems that order her groceries, get clothing taken for cleaning etc whenever a need has been detected.

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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Castle Heterodyne is governed by a clank intelligence based on the personality of its creator, Faustus Heterodyne. Fortunately, once our heroine provides the blood sample proving she's a Heterodyne it becomes absolutely loyal to her, unfortunately it has a sick sense of humor at the best of times and the attack by the Other fragmented its control over the internal defenses. Baron Wulfenbach assigned people to repair it as a form of capital punishment.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', the Avenger's Mansion is run by Tony Stark's A.I., JARVIS, just like the film adaptation.
* A parody of HAL from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' in a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror" episode ''is'' this... The computer has the voice of Pierce Brosnan and it quickly falls in love with Marge. HilarityEnsues.
* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes:
** ''WesternAnimation/DesignForLeaving'' has Daffy outfit Elmer's home with automated labor saving devices that are anything but convenient, like a garbage disposal that's just a pig that eats your food scraps, and an elevator that brings the upper story down to you... crushing the room below it in the process.

* Creator/TexAvery's ''WesternAnimation/TheHouseOfTomorrow'' spoofs this trope for all it's worth.

* The WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseworks short ''Mickey's Mechanical House'' has Mickey moving out of his [[TheAllegedHouse extremely rickety, crappy house]] to one that is highly automated... of course, HilarityEnsues when Mickey accidentally smashes the house's master remote control and all of its gadgetry [[AIIsACrapshoot goes completely and destructively haywire]]. Mickey moves back to his old house because [[LesserOfTwoEvils as annoying as it is to live in it at times, it's not actually trying to kill him]].
* Home Base from ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' is this.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' episode ''[[Recap/WhatsNewScoobyDooS2E3HighTechHouseOfHorrors High-Tech House of Horrors]]'', the gang goes to a future fair, but its main attraction, the house of the future, causes other plans for them as [[spoiler:its AI, S.H.A.R.I. (short for [[FunWithAcronyms Super Home of Artificial Robotic Intelligence]]), reveals unintended behavior, namely an unnatural craving for attention, even going as far to trap its guests in itself to achieve this]].

** It's also quite easy to recreate the "go horribly awry" part, because early adopters have discovered to their cost that some "smart" appliances are embarrassingly badly secured. While hacking a dishwasher may seem like it wouldn't be much good beyond creating some slapstick comedy, a hacker could find it to be trivially easy to crack the wifi it's connected to, and from there they could backdoor into your computer. Or crack all the other appliances and [[{{Gaslighting}} use them to drive you insane]]. Some particularly poorly-designed examples will also shut down completely and refuse to work if they can't connect to the Internet, or if the manufacturer goes under and shuts down the servers, or is still kicking and shuts off the server anyway to [[MoneyDearBoy force you to buy newer stuff]].

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "The Haven", many buildings are run by an artificial intelligence named Argus.

* Creator/RayBradbury's story "Literature/ThereWillComeSoftRains" is about a Smart House that continues to carry out its daily routine after its inhabitants are killed in a nuclear war.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', the Avenger's Mansion is run by Tony Stark's A.I., JARVIS, just like the film adaptation.

** It's also quite easy to recreate the "go horribly awry" part, because early adopters have discovered to their cost that some "smart" appliances are embarrassingly badly secured. While hacking a dishwasher may seem like it wouldn't be much good beyond creating some slapstick comedy, a hacker could find it to be trivially easy to crack the wifi it's connected to, and from there they could backdoor into your computer. Some particularly poorly-designed examples will also shut down completely and refuse to work if they can't connect to the Internet, or if the manufacturer goes under and shuts down the servers, or is still kicking and shuts off the server anyway to [[MoneyDearBoy force you to buy newer stuff]].

The Smart House is a fully automated house controlled by a sophisticated computer ArtificialIntelligence. Basically, you talk to the house, and tell it what you want, and it does it for you. Turn on the electronics, [[AutoKitchen cook your meals]], even draw your bath. Some smart houses will even monitor your vital signs.

* Nara Oxham's AI-house in ''Literature/{{Succession}}''.

** In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures' novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheAlsoPeople The Also People]]'', the People's houses all work like this. The later book ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHappyEndings Happy Endings]]'' has a scene where one of the People is at a wedding reception on Earth, and casually lets go of her plate in mid air. When it smashes to the ground she says "Sorry, I forgot you have such dumb houses."

* In the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheAlsoPeople The Also People]]'', the People's houses all work like this. The later book ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHappyEndings Happy Endings]]'' has a scene where one of the People is at a wedding reception on Earth, and casually lets go of her plate in mid air. When it smashes to the ground she says "Sorry, I forgot you have such dumb houses."

* Creator/TexAvery's ''The House of Tomorrow'' spoofs this trope for all it's worth.

** It's also quite easy to recreate the "go horribly awry" part, because early adopters have discovered to their cost that some "smart" appliances are embarrassingly badly secured. While hacking a dishwasher may seem like it wouldn't be much good beyond creating some slapstick comedy, a hacker could find it to be trivially easy to crack the wifi it's connected to, and from there they could backdoor into your computer. Some particularly poorly-designed examples will also shut down completely and refuse to work if they can't connect to the Internet, or if the manufacturer goes under and shuts down the servers.