Garrison Lovely's 'Obsolete' on AI Replacing Labor Lands September 2026 with Heavyweight Blurbs
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-11
AI commentator Garrison Lovely is publishing Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It via Nation Books on September 29, 2026, based on his prior research and writing on AI-driven job displacement.
The book aims to cut through binaries like 'bubble vs. humanity's last invention' and examines Silicon Valley's push toward 'Universal Labor-Replacing Machines' and the rhetoric justifying it. Endorsements come from Nobel laureate Daron Acemoğlu, MIT's Max Tegmark, Roman Yampolskiy, and Luke Kemp, among others. Pre-orders are open.
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