Obsolete

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The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You-and How to Stop It

By: Garrison Lovely

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Paperback | 2 July 2026

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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.

Many today don't get further than seeing AI as a boondoggle a new shiny object for techno-capitalists to sink their cash into as we barrel toward climate disaster.Obsoletetakes those concerns seriously, but implores us to keep our eye on the ball: the attempt torender you obsolete.

The scale of their project has no real precedent. What we think of as big the Gilded Age monopolies, the Manhattan Project, the Apollo program doesn't even come close to capturing its size. Almost none of us wants this vast transformation to succeed. Yet we're letting it proceed virtually unabated. Why? Because we don't know it's happening, we don't believe it will work, or we don't think we can stop it.Obsoletetakes on all three.

AI expert and journalist Garrison Lovely's debut is a refreshing reset on an AI debatein whichbasicallyeveryone is getting some big things wrong. With deep access to top researchers, advocates, and industry insiders,Obsoleteoffers a new way to think about the technology and a plan for deciding its future democratically.

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Obsolete

The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You-and How to Stop It

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Paperback

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How to return your order

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