Garrison Lovely
author of Obsolete · Author and journalist
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“I think that rendering us obsolete means disempowering people because their labor power is a source of economic power and political power, and so if people lose that because they are replaceable, then you lose a mechanism of democratic accountability”
“I'm not against building it at some point. I think it should just be when you know you can do it safely and when there's actual public buy in, so you can make the case to people and they're making an informed consensual decision to bring this into the world”
“I think you should just ban certain developments and developing AGI would be top of the list for me”
“I think it's like quite clear that the machines will not reliably do what you want them to do. They are unpredictable. We do not understand how they work at a fundamental level”
“if you can build a movement that's powerful enough to make presidents think that their fates will hinge on their response to the movement, then you can make things that seem impossible become not just possible, but go beyond what the demands actually require”
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Highlights from Garrison Lovely's "Obsolete"
According to the excerpt, June Jimenez reviews Garrison Lovely's book "Obsolete", calling it a well-researched introduction for non-technical readers. Jimenez describes its core argument as analysing AI through mass labour displacement and says a mass movement to shape or pause development is more feasible than often argued, while wanting more care about the plan's limits.
The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely)
In an 80-minute Future of Life Institute podcast, host Gus Docker interviews journalist Garrison Lovely about Lovely's book Obsolete. Lovely argues the AI industry aims to build machines that replace human labor, that this would strip people of economic and political power, that AGI is not inevitable, and that a mass movement like the nuclear freeze could stop it.