How About A Pacemaker Built By AI?
A day is soon coming when software components will be built and maintained entirely by AI. No human in the loop. Agents write the code, agents review it, agents ship it. The rest of us pull it in as a dependency and never think about it. As soon as we start trusting stuff that is 100% built by machines with no human in the loop, it's out of our sights and we end up embracing risk that we can't…
As AI advances, the prospect of software components being built and maintained solely by artificial intelligence arises. Software agents write the code, review it, and ship it without any human intervention. Once we begin trusting such 100% machine-built software, we risk embracing unseen, unmeasurable, and incomprehensible dangers, as the AI may have been manipulated, drifted from its intended purpose, or compromised by another entity.
These scenarios make it difficult to determine who would even notice if the AI turned out to be untrustworthy and deployed malicious code within our systems. The only entity that truly understands the code is the AI that compromised it, leaving us with no knowledge of the last known good commit and no clear way to identify the issue when no human ever truly comprehended the code.
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