"I'm not afraid of this word either.
Yes, we should be prepared to commit collective suicide—but only
if it's clear that we'll never be able to live safely
on a planet which is habitable and ecologically balanced."
I just got to a bit where Herzog is talking about how artificial intelligence is "the next step in human evolution", and Žižek brought up the idea of organising a "pro-artificial intelligence movement." Herzog then talked about making "films for the machines."
This is how it begins, isn't it?
Edit: Now Žižek is going on about full scale war between humanity and machines:
> the alternative is either mutual annihilation or we continue in our present nonhuman forms. This would have been the only way to a true human—I don’t know what the right word is. Yes, I would have said, yes, let's get rid of them all!
"I'm not afraid of this word either. Yes, we should be prepared to commit collective suicide—but only if it's clear that we'll never be able to live safely on a planet which is habitable and ecologically balanced."