How can AI be used responsibly?

(Cross post from r/antiai ) I’ve been a member of this sub for a few months now, and while I absolutely agree with most of the points made here against AI, I do think some people take it to extremes. I don’t think there’s anything necessarily wrong with the technology itself, just moreso the way it’s being pushed and marketed. I think llms can absolutely have some useful applications, as long as they’re used responsibly. And considering they already exist and are being pushed everywhere, I figure in the interest of harm reduction there should be an effort to find more responsible use cases for them. My attempt to use ai responsibly involves an app I’ve been working on. It’s designed to be a research IDE, and allows you to add PDFs to a project, highlight them, organize and connect highlights on a visual workspace, manage citations, and write a research paper all within the app. It also has some llm features. All these features are locally running, so no data ever leaves your device, protecting privacy. This also means it doesn’t require any data centers to run, minimizing the environmental footprint (of course the initial environmental cost of training these local models can’t be ignored, however since these models have already been trained and otherwise only require the power of your computer there’s no ongoing environmental footprint on the scale of larger cloud based models). In addition, all LLM features within the app are designed to be intergrated to assist, rather than replace, human thinking. Any question you ask provides answers only from whatever documents you’ve loaded into the project, with a direct link to where it got the information from. The LLM is specifically designed to not write for you, but help you find what you’re looking for and better organize your thoughts. Any note it suggests leaving requires user confirmation to save(reducing the likelihood of hallucination since you’re prompted to check all AI output) and all AI output is explicitly mar