Garrison Lovely

Garrison Lovely is a freelance journalist and the author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It (OR Books, September 2026). 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, Jacobin, as well as writing in The New York Times, BBC, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, TIME, The Guardian, The Verge, and elsewhere.

Nuclear disarmament demonstrators in Central Park in New York City on June 12, 1982.

Freeze AI! Freeze AI!

The nuclear freeze movement’s lessons for taming AI.

Sep 25, 2026 / Garrison Lovely

Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis (L) and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai open the tech titan's annual I/O developers conference focusing on how artificial intelligence is being woven into search, email, virtual meetings and more in Mountain View, California, on May 14, 2024.

California’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Moment for the Industry California’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Moment for the Industry

AI’s top industrialists say they want regulation—until someone tries to regulate them.

Aug 15, 2024 / Garrison Lovely

Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower

Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower

Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm.

Sep 5, 2023 / Feature / Garrison Lovely

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