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AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP
AI tools can help Linux maintainers, but they can also cause chaos. Here's what needs to be addressed - fast - before things get out of control.
As far as Daniel Stenberg, chief maintainer of the popular open-source cURL data transfer program, is concerned, AI-written bug reports are active attacks on the project. Linux Foundation fellow Shuah Khan told me that "AI-based tools are now being used to examine commit messages, code changes, and historical backporting patterns to make intelligent recommendations." We use a programming language that can almost be defined by its lack of any kind of safety, and, in some subsystem patches, are simply taken if no obvious problems exist, making us rather vulnerable to this."
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