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SUMMARY:Garrison Lovely presents ‘Obsolete’
DESCRIPTION:AI expert and journalist Garrison Lovely’s debut is a refreshing reset on an AI debate\n\n\nThird Place Books welcomes AI expert and journalist Garrison Lovely for the release of Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It.\nObsolete 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. 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.\nThis event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!\nHaving trouble registering? See Eventbrite’s troubleshooting FAQ here.\n\nTickets:\nThis event is free to attend. For important updates, registration is highly recommended in advance.\n\nAbout Obsolete. . .\nIs 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.\nThe 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.\nMany 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.\nThe 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.\nAI 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.\n\nGarrison 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, The Verge, and elsewhere. He was previously a reporter in residence at the Omidyar Network and is the author of Obsolete, a Substack on the political economy of artificial intelligence. Lovely’s work has been translated into five languages and cited by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, ProPublica, and others.\n\n\nAbout Third Place Books\nFounded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle’s Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.\n\n\n
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