Unpopular opinion, but I think the degree to which AI doomerism plays out feels like Internet purity culture. Eating meat or non-fair trade coffee and chocolate is unethical, driving a car, buying electronics with slave labor mined rare earth metals all do active harm to the world. I feel like moderate AI use to save time isn’t a huge deal. Text generation is fairly cheap and not that harmful at small scale, if you’re running a swarm trying to solve millennium prizes that’s a much heavier lift. There is danger in missing out on learning and developing core instincts and judgement when you outsource some of that to AI, but asking it to find something in a disorganized readme or something like that isn’t a huge deal.