Don't forget, the robots can now also plug themselves in.
If you can't beat them, build them.
Nice meme!
I wonder if the former was a setup for the latter. If this was proposed out of the blue, it would be dismissed as crazy. by discussing a more distant and extreme scenario in n negative terms first, this seems relatively tame, Overton window style. I did find myself immediately thinking of the evil robots in The Matrix, though.