"Why We’re Banning AI": OBSOLETE
Posted by Current Affairs on October 15, 2026
"As Garrison Lovely writes in his new book Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It, the developers of AI don’t see it as an asset for workers, but as a way to replace them. They’re trying to build a device whose success is literally measured by whether it successfully replaces people. It is not being designed to help the average person’s capacity to achieve their goals, but to help automate us all into obsolescence. That’s why it has to be fought aggressively."