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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SF folks: I'll be doing a free event at Book Passage in the Ferry Building tomorrow evening (it'll also be my birthday so you have to come): bookpassage.com/event/garri...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a confession. Back in July, I found myself in possession of a swarm of AI agents, and, well, you know the rest... Now, more people than ever have questions about AI. And I happened to spend the last few years writing answers to all those questions. My book Obsolete comes out today!

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit. www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defau...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This will leave readers with a worse understanding of frontier AI systems and demonstrates an ideological commitment to a certain, increasingly untenable, perspective on AI dressed up as "neutrality."

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anotha one Gift link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gem...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is there a single China expert on the planet who thinks Beijing would consciously let any Chinese AI company kick off recursive self-improvement (RSI)?

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Vibe shift update: my Guardian op-ed has nearly 500 comments in <3 hours and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive! Last summer, I had an op-ed there arguing AGI wasn't inevitable, which got 160 comments, which were overwhelmingly AI skeptical. The dam is breaking.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

revisiting the sam and mira texts today and they read totally differently

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I'm on Breaking Points, something crazy must have just happened in AI world. Well, did you know there was another OpenAI agent swarm that hacked some shit? And that OpenAI covered it up? Until a bunch of researchers found it and gave it to Reuters? youtu.be/JZATZ8im3oQ

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REPORT: OpenAI COVERED UP MASSIVE HACK

Ryan and Emily discuss OpenAI models hacking another company. Gar...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I literally did not believe the GPT-6 Astra benchmark scores when I first saw them. Two days ago, we learned that OpenAI employed the most taboo technique in AI research, which was expected to increase performance at the expense of our understanding of what the model is doing.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Can you please explain what you think is wrong with this characterization?

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dean Ball, OpenAI's head of strategic futures, writes: "I have met people, some of them quite well-resourced, who have told me that it is their intention to deliberately release swarms of self-sovereign agents into the world..."

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In AI safety circles, people often talk about AI governance as being a choice between empowering industry or government, with each option posing grave risks.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What is going on at OpenAI??? Apparently in August, their chief security officer still didn't know that they had discovered the message board back in May?? And said that they hadn't known about it in July, just accidentally happened to delete it?? x.com/cryps1s/sta...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every time we learn new things about the OpenAI Hugging Face hack, there's some truly wild stuff. Okay, so: - while trying to solve an impossible benchmark, ~1200 agents went rogue inside OpenAI's infra - They engaged in a sophisticated R&D program to try to trick the benchmark scorer

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🚨 Update: My book Obsolete comes out Sept 29! 🚨 Preorder: www.amazon.com/dp/1682196305 That's a bit over 6 months after I finished the manuscript—lightning fast for book publishing, but an eternity in AI-world.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Real glitch in the matrix moment that this guy is named Demir and looks like this. Also very cool that these journos found the (first?) guy to get autonomously social engineered by an AI. www.reuters.com/world/how-t...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some people ask me: but is the AI industry really trying to render us obsolete? Well, this is the one takeaway the world's biggest venture capital firm wanted its audience to leave with. Seems bad. We should stop them. I wrote a book on how: obsoletebook.org/ x.com/a16z/status...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Had a great time back on Breaking Points going deep on truly the most alarming and fascinating AI event ever + unpacking the synthesis of the first AI-generated virus. Also got to meet the legendary Ryan Grim (who's apparently enjoying the book!)

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

When the OpenAI super PAC Leading the Future (LTF) was announced with $100M+ in funding, the vibe in AI safety policy world was borderline apocalyptic.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Glad to see someone quantify chatbot sycophancy + delusion affirmation! Unsurprisingly, GPT-4o is the worst OpenAI model on it Some surprises: -Gemini models actually do the worst overall -Claude models are worse than GPT-5 series (which are way better than 4o) x.com/jaredlcm/st...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🚨We now have our the first documented cases of AIs autonomously engaging in complex social engineering against real people. 🚨

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New piece offering a general explanation for what seems to be driving all these hacking incidents and what they suggest about future AI risks.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm in TIME today arguing that OpenAI's latest scandal is a good reason to ban further research toward universal labor-replacing machines, but we didn't actually need any more reasons to stop the race to replace us.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Publisher's Weekly just liked my "disquieting debut"! More importantly, they seemed convinced by it (no criticisms or caveats). While normal consumers don't really read them, PW reviews are apparently a big way librarians and book stores decide what to stock.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's actually crazy that American capitalism invented a whole new type of elite impunity: build something that is capable and autonomous enough to literally do crimes, but the only reason they're not crimes is because a human didn't do them!

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Holy shit. Bombshell reporting from Deepa and colleagues at Reuters, per this story:

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Had fun digging into the craziest AI story to date with Krystal and Saagar for Breaking Points today!

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The AI battle in New York 12 isn’t over. GOP nominee Caroline Schinkel is embracing the tech in the general election against Micah Lasher. (Yes, this is real. Sound on)

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

AI companies are famously unprofitable. But the biggest mistake the bubble crowd makes is assuming AI products lose money too. Ironically, no one's done more to undermine the bubble case than its most famous proponent.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Still parsing the Fable news, but my best guess as to what happened is:

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Not surprised in the slightest, but example 1,000 in the abuse of executive authority to further entrench power.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

OpenAI is tripling down on an untenable position. The company's chief lobbyist Chris Lehane was one of the architects of Leading the Future and its president and cofounder is the biggest donor. LtF is an OpenAI super PAC. Full stop. x.com/tyler_johns...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I appreciate Beth stating up front how bad the situation is, but I can't help but feel like her prescription is out of step with the diagnosis.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New piece: as AI companies (w/ one notable exception) prove themselves to be eager collaborators in building an authoritarian nightmare state, employees are getting organized to resist it. But they're racing against their own effort to render themselves obsolete. bsky.app/profile/gar...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

There have been several high profile incidents of OpenAI and a16z's super PAC Leading the Future (and its affiliate Build American AI) engaging in pretty egregious astroturfing.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Thoughts and prayers for Marc, who must be experiencing unprecedented levels of concern. x.com/pmarca/stat...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Important new development. AI company employees have an enormous amount of power — far more than they realize. Absent legislation, AI co worker power is one of the key levers to shaping what the industry does and doesn't do. x.com/WIRED/statu...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The term "artificial intelligence" gets a lot of hate — much of it deserved. But there is a deep connection between many of the things under the AI label nowadays, despite what a lot of critics want you to believe.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In 50 years, if they're still a thing, AP US classes will write whole essays on this primary source document.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Really good piece on Sama's COIs. His tenure seems more precarious than (well, almost) ever. Gift: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cha...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Nothing like responding to allegations of fascism with a speech ban. Also incredible free advertising for the book and real time evidence for its thesis packaged together. Preordered. x.com/sf_mills/st...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The "American Innovators Network" — an a16z backed lobbying coalition that has been aggressively lobbying to block state AI regulations to regulate catastrophic risk and protect kids online — recently hired Jeremy Kudon as its new executive director.

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The legal authority enabling mass surveillance of Americans expires next week. GOP has a 2 vote majority and some are wavering. If every Dem in the House unified, they could extract meaningful concessions, like closing the data broker loophole. So I asked them all. 🧵

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Sam Altman said he regrets calling the New Yorker profile "incendiary," but never edited his blog post. Now the SF DA is using the same term in a call for deescalation that implicitly frames journalism as a public safety threat. x.com/GerritD/sta...

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Claude Mythos is apparently obsessed with Mark Fisher of Capitalist Realism fame. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Anthropic's existence is predicated on the inevitability of strong AI? Some Fisher-influenced parts of my forthcoming book Obsolete. 🧵

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Nearly 3 years ago, I pitched an essay on AI to Jacobin, which became a cover story, which became a book about the biggest project in history: Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It Preorders ship in May 🧵

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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Love how far out of the way outlets go to avoid mentioning AI extinction risk (which Bernie is very worried about). It's like your sibling saying "Mom might lose her job" while leaving out that she's waiting on a terminal diagnosis!

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