He Thinks AI Code May Break Everything - EP 59 Will Wilson
Will Wilson paints a bleak picture for where we’re heading with code written by AIs.
He thinks the world will fill with poorly written code that no one understands and that software bugs will proliferate through critical systems. Your airplane that has gotten safer and safer with each passing decade will be running on code that no one has really checked all that well. Which would be bad.
What’s more, Wilson fears that humans will lose their software writing skills over time as AI takes on more and more tasks. We’ll become dumber as a whole. Which would also be bad.
Wilson is a mathematician…
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