
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. He is the author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It. https://www.obsoletebook.org/
In an excerpt from his new book, Garrison Lovely argues that stopping the AGI race is entirely possible, but business interests stand in the way.