Garrison Lovely's New Book 'Obsolete' Argues to Halt the Race to Replace Human Labor
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-11-06
AI commentator Garrison Lovely's new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It, is out via OR Books and Nation Books. His central argument: even setting extinction risk aside, the industry is building universal labor-replacing machines — and whether or not they succeed, they shouldn't be allowed to try. The book proposes how to stop them, drawing praise from Vox, Jacobin and Publishers Weekly.
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