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[Linkpost] "Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security" by gwern

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
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Jun 21, 2026
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Summary

This is a link post. Powerful LLMs will be deployed at global scale in the next few years, and will dominate the Internet, and increasingly, ordinary life. As of mid-2026, there is no coherent vision for how knowledge professionals, or ordinary people, will be able to harness these LLMs for large productivity increases, or how they will handle cybersecurity and cognitive security. I propose a goal of creating Guardian Angels (GA): digital twin LLMs which are personalized with the goal of p...