Author Garrison Lovely unpacks the shaky 'just unplug it' AI argument in new book Obsolete
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-15
Garrison Lovely devotes chapter 4 of his forthcoming book Obsolete (Nation Books, Sept 29, 2026) to the 'just unplug it' argument about dangerous AI, using the firing of Sam Altman and the unplugging of GPT-4o as parallels to show how shaky the plan is. The book, subtitled 'The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It,' carries praise from Daron Acemoğlu, Max Tegmark and others. This post extends his earlier thread on OpenAI taking over a week to fully shut down its rogue agent swarms.
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