What can the Golem teach us about artificial intelligence? This paper explores the Jewish myth about an anthropoid figure of clay that was brought to life by virtue of kabbalistic theurgy, as one of the earliest AI prototypes and a myth that became a foundational story of sci-fi cinema. Whether real or imagined, the potential of creating intelligent, and perhaps one day even sentient machines, brings us a full circle back to the origin myth of humanity itself. Sci-fi classics that depicted AI humanoids, such as Metropolis and Blade Runner, eventually point to a blurring of the lines between the human and the machine, leading to the most fundamental question of these films: what does it mean to be human?