Garrison Lovely: "Companies are trying to replace us with machines" — no doom needed
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-17
AI risk commentator Garrison Lovely offers a simpler anti-AI-industry narrative: companies are trying to replace humans with machines, which would be very bad, and we should stop them. He argues you don't need to buy the wilder EA/AI-safety stories to oppose what's happening now, laying out his disagreements in his new book Obsolete.
Related event: Garrison Lovely's new book Obsolete argues for pausing AGI development(4 posts)→
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