I’m a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race for Machine Superintelligence (for OR Books and The Nation).

I’ve written about AI for The New York Times, The Verge, TIME, The Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Guardian US, SF Standard, The Nation, The American Prospect, and Jacobin. My reporting and commentary on this topic has been shared by, among others, the three “godfathers” of deep learning (Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton), noted AI critic Gary Marcus, and Life 3.0 author Max Tegmark.

My cover story in The Nation, “Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower,” was the magazine’s 4th most popular story in 2023, and my Jacobin cover story, “Can Humanity Survive AI?,” made rounds among staff members working for several US senators and representatives (it’s the best sneak preview of Obsolete).

I’ve also written for BBC Future, Vox, Le Monde Diplomatique, and others. I’ve appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, The Majority Report, and The Weather Channel, and elsewhere. I host the podcast The Most Interesting People I Know.

My writing has been referenced by The New Yorker (by Ted Chiang), The New York Times, The Atlantic, Axios, The Guardian, NY Mag, ProPublica, The Brookings Institution, The LA Times, Fortune, The New Republic, The Week, In These Times, GQ, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.

I graduated from Cornell University, where I co-founded the Prison Reform and Education Project and volunteered as a teaching assistant in the Cornell Prison Education Program. I previously worked in fundraising technology at GiveDirectly, an NGO that sends unconditional cash transfers to some of the poorest people in the world, and as a product manager at Enigma Technologies, a data-linking startup. I host the podcast The Most Interesting People I Know where I interview writers, researchers, and activists on politics, science, and ethics.

You can email me at tgarrisonlovely [at] gmail [dot] com.