Obsolete: Garrison Lovely's book on AI's trillion-dollar race to replace us
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-14
Garrison Lovely's book Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It arrives September 29, 2026 from Nation Books. It asks whether AI is a bubble or humanity's last invention, an existing harm or existential threat, and examines Silicon Valley's push for universal labor-replacing machines under the rhetoric of "tools." The book has drawn advance praise from Daron Acemoğlu, Max Tegmark, Roman Yampolskiy, and others, who call it timely and unsettling.
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