Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted

By Iván Alfonso, Assistant researcher, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Jordi Cabot, Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Software is ubiquitous, powering almost every aspect of our lives. The computerised systems in your car alone incorporate tens of millions of lines of code. The increasing digital transformation of our society means that demand for more and better software is likely to continue into the future.

The dilemma is that there are not enough human programmers to build all this software. This means that more…

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