# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Garrison Lovely - "Obsolete: AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — And How to Stop It"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 07 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Garrison Lovely will discuss "Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — And How to Stop It." A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. 

At the Co-op. 

About the book: 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 labor--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. "Obsolete" takes those concerns seriously, but implores us to keep our eye on the ball: the attempt to render 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. "Obsolete" takes on all three.

AI expert and journalist Garrison Lovely's debut is a refreshing reset on an AI debate in which basically everyone is getting some big things wrong. With deep access to top researchers, advocates, and industry insiders, "Obsolete" offers a new way to think about the technology and a plan for deciding its future democratically.

About the author: Garrison Lovely is an AI expert and 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. He was previously a Reporter in Residence at the Omidyar Network.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/garrison-lovely-obsolete-ai-industrys-trillion-dollar-race-to-replace-us-and-how-to-stop-it/200030436814312
- **Event Categories**: sports, art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637
- **lat**: 41.7902
- **long**: -87.59611
- **full address**: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637

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  - **A:** Garrison Lovely - "Obsolete: AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — And How to Stop It" takes place on Wed, 07 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Wed, 07 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm at 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637.
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