--- title: AI Code Gets Approved in the Linux Kernel… But With... description: The Linux kernel has officially documented its policy on AI-assisted contributions, shipping with Linux 7.0. The policy requires human accountability for every... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-code-gets-approved-in-the-linux-kernel-but-with-strings-attached-0nh5ps1dc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Code Gets Approved in the Linux Kernel… But With Strings Attached | daily.dev og:description: The Linux kernel has officially documented its policy on AI-assisted contributions, shipping with Linux 7.0. The policy requires human accountability for every... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-code-gets-approved-in-the-linux-kernel-but-with-strings-attached-0nh5ps1dc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0nH5ps1dC.png og:image:alt: AI Code Gets Approved in the Linux Kernel… But With Strings Attached og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Code Gets Approved in the Linux Kernel… But With Strings Attached **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Linux kernel has officially documented its policy on AI-assisted contributions, shipping with Linux 7.0. The policy requires human accountability for every patch via the Developer Certificate of Origin, prohibits AI agents from adding Signed-off-by tags, and mandates an 'Assisted-by' tag disclosing which AI tools and models were used. Purely machine-generated submissions remain unwelcome. Greg Kroah-Hartman has already been using AI-assisted fuzzing in his kernel tree under this workflow. The approach contrasts with Gentoo's outright ban on AI-generated code and NetBSD's 'tainted code' classification requiring core developer approval. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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