Some find it difficult to take AI seriously, seeing it instead as a boondoggle or a real estate scheme, but right now, the unelected techno-capitalists leading the AI boom are deciding how to build and deploy a technology that they genuinely believe could end the world. Garrison Lovely’s debut is a deep dive into the Silicon Valley hivemind, and a wake-up call for those who fail to register AI as a threat.

Some find it difficult to take AI seriously, seeing it instead as a boondoggle or a real estate scheme, but right now, the unelected techno-capitalists leading the AI boom are deciding how to build and deploy a technology that they genuinely believe could end the world. Garrison Lovely’s debut is a deep dive into the Silicon Valley hivemind, and a wake-up call for those who fail to register AI as a threat.