Garrison Lovely announces 'Obsolete,' an AI-critical book endorsed by Nobel laureate Acemoğlu
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-04
Garrison Lovely announced his debut book Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It, out September 29, 2026 from Nation Books. The book tackles whether AI is a bubble or an existential threat and argues Silicon Valley is building labor replacements rather than tools.
It carries heavyweight blurbs: Nobel laureate Daron Acemoğlu calls it "a well-researched exposé on Big Tech's quest for Universal Labor-Replacing Machines," with praise also from Max Tegmark, Roman Yampolskiy, Robert Wright, and a Publishers Weekly review describing it as "a disquieting debut."
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