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AI safety advocates: it's time to be more self-reflective about our personal usage of frontier AI

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The AI safety community has to this point been quite nonchalant about our own personal use of AI. The common view has been that it’s only future AI models that pose real dangers, so it doesn’t matter what we do now with currently existing models. For a time, this was reasonable: existing models were essentially deeply flawed toys, AI companies were years from IPO, and the pace of progress was slow compared to today’s dizzying rate of advance. Now, in the summer of 2026, the situation has changed. Our use of advanced AI models has far more of an impact than it does in the past, and poses new…

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