Garrison Lovely publishes Obsolete: a trillion-dollar critique of the AI replacement race
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-23
Garrison Lovely's book Obsolete (OR Books & Nation Books), locked in March, frames the AI industry as a trillion-dollar race to replace people—cutting past binaries like "bubble vs last invention" and "present harm vs existential risk" to propose ways to stop it.
Early praise is strong: Luke Kemp calls it "the best book I've read on AI... Sam Altman would hate it"; Publishers Weekly says it's "disquieting"; Vox credits Lovely with transcending the warring tribes of frontier-AI risk discourse.
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