Great Refactor Initiative Looks to AI to Harden Critical Code

Many of the world’s critical IT systems remain riddled with bugs, and AI tools threaten to make it easier than ever to exploit them. But AI could also be part of the solution: A new initiative aims to automatically convert vulnerable code into the security-focused language Rust, which would eliminate the vast majority of known software vulnerabilities. Rapid advances in AI coding tools have made it easier than ever to tackle software-engineering tasks that were previously too expensive or time-consuming to take on.