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Credit where it’s due to AI for uncovering the PHP flaw – and discredit to the leaker | Letters
The Guardian
Read the full articleAn AI tool recently discovered longstanding, obscure bugs in the PHP programming language's source code, highlighting AI's role in software auditing. The issue escalated when a human leaked details of these bugs before they could be fixed, raising calls for legal penalties against such leaks. Commentators also express concern about society's reliance on complex, poorly understood technology systems driven by commercial interests.
