Garrison Lovely Hosts Free SF Event for AI Book 'Obsolete' on Bubble vs. Existential Threat
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-30
AI commentator Garrison Lovely announced a free book event at Book Passage in San Francisco's Ferry Building on October 1, 2026, for his new book Obsolete.
The book tackles one central question: the richest companies in history are racing to build machines that replace all human labor — a project whose scale dwarfs the Gilded Age monopolies, the Manhattan Project, or Apollo. It moves past the "AI bubble vs. existential threat" binary, arguing the only surefire way this transformation won't succeed is if we deliberately stop it — a transformation almost nobody wants yet nearly everyone is letting proceed unabated.
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