Garrison Lovely's AI-critical book Obsolete lands Sept 29, backed by Acemoglu and Tegmark
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-05
Writer Garrison Lovely announced his book Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It (Nation Books) arrives September 29, with his royalties donated to a nonprofit built by climate-movement veterans. The book argues Silicon Valley is building universal labor-replacing machines while marketing them as tools, cutting through bubble-vs-doom false binaries. It carries endorsements from Nobel laureate Daron Acemoğlu, Max Tegmark, and Roman Yampolskiy, and is pitched to readers skeptical of industry-friendly AI narratives.
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