Book Talk: Garrison Lovely’s Obsolete

Join us for a conversation with journalist Garrison Lovely about his new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us – and How to Stop it. Is AI a bubble or humanity’s last invention? An existing harm or 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.

Garrison Lovely is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. In 2025, he was identified by the Pulitzer Center as an AI journalist worth following. Lovely is 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, The Verge, and elsewhere.