Obsolete
The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You-and How to Stop It
- Paperback
370 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2026
Summary
Is AI a bubble or humanity’s last invention? An existing harm or an existential threat? Obsolete cuts through the hype and false binaries to answer all the AI questions you have, while raising some you probably aren’t prepared for.
The richest companies in history are racing to build a machine that replaces human labour—all of it. And, as this provocative new book insists, the only surefire way they won’t succeed is if we stop them.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781682196304 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1682196305 |
| Author: | Garrison Lovely |
| Publisher: | OR Books |
| Imprint: | OR Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 370 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 139mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
“It is the best book I’ve read on AI risk. It’s supremely timely, it takes no prisoners, and most importantly, it is right.”
—Luke Kemp
“If you are worried about AI, this timely and engaging book tells you that you should be because Silicon Valley has made choices that should indeed worry us all.”
—Daron Acemoglu
“Garrison Lovely is exactly what the Left needs at this moment in technological history.”
—Robert Wright
“Cuts straight through the contentious and dizzying discourse surrounding AI … an invaluable and urgent warning about the threat it poses to democracy—and, as he convincingly argues, to the future of our civilization itself.”
—Luke Savage
“A deeply researched cutting-edge exposition of the grim situation humanity finds itself in with respect to AI, and what we can do about it … even-handed while expressing a strong and correct view of what is happening.”
—Anthony Aguirre
“Garrison Lovely is one of our best researchers and thinkers. His work is an antidote to fuzzy thinking, essential for understanding what the real risks of AI are and how they can be dealt with effectively.”
—Nathan Robinson
“Obsolete is funny, furious, and correct: Silicon Valley promised us tools, but is building replacements. Read it before your replacement does.”
—Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy
About The Author
Garrison Lovely
Garrison Lovely is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, known for his cover stories in The Nation (“Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower”) and Jacobin (“Can Humanity Survive AI?”), as well as writing in The New York Times, BBC, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, TIME, The Guardian, and The Verge. He was previously a reporter in residence at the Omidyar Network and is the author of Obsolete, an independent publication on the economics and geopolitics of artificial intelligence. Lovely’s work has been translated into five languages and cited by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and ProPublica.
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