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I cancelled my AI subscriptions because I am worried about catastrophic risks

L1 · CuriousOpinion & AnalysisLessWrong AI· 8/28/2026

Personal ethical stance on using technology from companies perceived as creating existential risk.

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An AI safety advocate cancels all AI subscriptions due to concerns about catastrophic risks from frontier AI systems.

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[Today is Day 13 of an ongoing 30-day microblogging challenge. It was initiated by Zoe Isabel Senón. You can see who is participating and also join in via this doc.] In my post about a conversation with a capabilities research, I ended with this thought: I believe that people more broadly should have personal redlines regarding the use of frontier AI systems. There is something incoherent about believing a a company might cause human extinction, but then also being their customer. This is somet

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