Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
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Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 4, 20261 hr 16 min
  • Interview
  • Technology

Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It (OR Books, 2026). Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most discussed and most misunderstood topic today. Even to the experts and captains of industry, the frontier large language models are essentially black boxes. AI poses many reasons to be both skeptical and optimistic, yet it also poses a fundamental threat to our current economic order and social contract. If AI succeeds, what will it mean for workers, consumers, and the huddled mass...

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Pomona College is widely regarded as one of the world's leading liberal arts colleges. Located in Southern California, Pomona is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges. Working at Pomona combines a small college experience focused on undergraduate teaching with the advantages of a research university. Pomona is a small place with world-class faculty

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and staff alongside creative and intellectually ambitious students. Pomona is currently hiring tenure-track positions in computer science, politics with a specialty in race and ethnicity, environmental analysis, psychology, biology, English, and dance. Physical education is also hiring, and the Pomona College Scholar in Residence is also seeking a new pre-doctoral,

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post-doctoral fellow in the social sciences and humanities. For detailed information about faculty employment opportunities, visit pomona.edu and search faculty positions. That's pomona.edu and just search faculty positions. Pomona College is one of the best colleges in the world. If you're looking for a new position, go and take a look at their offerings. Again,

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