In his 2026 book *Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You — and How to Stop It*, author Garrison Lovely warns that a "tiny group of people, backed by the most well-resourced organizations in the world, is attempting to render humanity obsolete," a project he calls the Obsoleting Project. Lovely argues that AI is a tool that can be used for good or bad, but the main threat is posed when AI achieves super-human intelligence across virtually all cognitive tasks, like the fictional HAL 9000 from *2001: A Space Odyssey*. The book notes that the Center for AI Safety stated, "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." Lovely documents the criminality and impunity of AI corporations including Anthropic, Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, and xAI, and cites UBC law professor Joel Bakan's argument that the corporation is inherently psychopathic. Lovely concludes that the Obsoleting Project is "essentially, an inequality engine, aspirationally turning unfathomable amounts of capital into othe."