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by totetsu 43 days ago
Gemini told me just this morning that there are three pillars of cognitive decline related to AI use. - Reduced ability to exert cognitive effort resulting from habitual offloading of tasks. - Deminished Meta-cognitive Self-Trust, due to constantly seeking external validation from AI. - Decline in memory Encoding, and less brain effort is spent processing information. In all seriousness however, I think some of the interesting things to observe in this areas are; the reaction against the word 'Safety' as a whole and its replacement with 'Security'. Safety seeming to have it's roots in like the work of Ralph Nader with automobiles, and Security being some thing that can be manifactured and sold. In this sense I wonder how the discourses of 'Personal AI Safety' fit into past discussions of the offloading of risks resulting form choices of corperations onto individuals. But in the case of LLMs .. it really is the case that what makes it useful is what makes it dangerous. And ultimately because, of the high-dimensionality of the language space they are encoding, it seems impossible to make any technical barrier that can completely cut off access to parts of that space that encode for for example encouraging someone to kill themselves. Things can, and are done, it fine-tuning, pre- and post-filtering, etc, to reduce the readiness for a system to share with a user this kind of output, but all it can ever do is reduce it. Then the question is, who's responsibility is it to make sure that these things are done well.
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Based on what? This seems like speculation.
Which part?
The entire thing.

If you want a specific example: where do those three pillars at the start come from? Why three and not four? Are all those three of equal importance, to the point where all three are pillars?

Furthermore, why are you offloading the task of understanding AI risk to an AI? That’s ironic to the point of self-parody.

The first part was an attempt at ironic humor, by repeating Gemini about the topic of offloading thinking to AI, not to be taken seriously as speculation or not.

As for the name changes..That is a fact you can look up, aswell as much analysis. It is my opinion that the move from framing this area from one of "saftey" to one of "national security", is interesting, and related to geopolitical movements towards "great-power", and ideological points of view that elevate "personal responsibility" and "reduced regulation" and is similar to long ongoing discussion in society like that about automobiles. I don't know if you call analysis speculation?

As for the part about Dimensionality. It is just my intuition — and so i suppose speculation — from some things like for instance the SolidGoldMagikarp glitch in early openai models.. How we understand all the way that there might be trigger certain outputs from a vastly large model? When those things can be completely opaque to human reason. Observability and Understandability are areas of research. I haven't seen anyone claiming that generative models outputs can be concretely controlled, thats why there is so many pre and post hoc work arounds.

So when a risk cant be eliminated, the question is how to manage it, and who's responsibility is that..

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-first-year https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tackling-ai-security-risk... https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2025/06/stateme...

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2025/10/28/SolidGoldMagikarp/