Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

gwern.net · 3 months ago · 37

A researcher proposes 'Guardian Angels'—personalized LLMs that emulate individual users' values and preferences to amplify productivity and provide security against AI-powered attacks, arguing current chatbots are fundamentally misaligned with users and designed for replacement rather than augmentation. The approach combines dynamic evaluation, active learning, and continuous user feedback to create AI agents that remain under human control and learn user-specific patterns, addressing the principal-agent problem by unifying principal and agent goals. This shifts work from 'what and how to do things' to 'what is worth doing,' enabling users to deploy multiple specialized agents for productivity and security while maintaining strategic oversight.