“Help me launch Obsolete: a book aimed at building a new movement for AI reform” by garrison

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I wrote a book! It's called Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It, and it’ll be available in May if you preorder through my publisher (OR Books+The Nation). With it, I took on a dual mission: get anyone up to speed on the state of AI and its risks (especially skeptics and lefties) AND write something people working in the space will enjoy and learn from. An unbiased panel of early reviewers (i.e. people I know) think it succeeds. For instance, here's a review from a skeptical friend: It felt like I was being drawn into this profound vision I had managed to keep out of my head for years… I feel this deep, visceral distrust of AI companies, and chatbots, for reasons that you were able to lay out in various places. I think I came to this like a very non-SF, non-tech, ‘normie’ who is reacting with their gut to seeing the proliferation of ai... But I also had never directly faced the story of AI, how the tech worked, and whether my skepticism was in fact, ill-founded. This hit that, and I thought it did a great job balancing [...] ---Outline:(06:37) Ways to help(08:22) Excerpt - The Obsoleting Project --- First published: April 9th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2HfuvYzRZgHpLAgpe/help-me-launch-obsolete-a-book-aimed-at-building-a-new --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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