--- title: Linus Torvalds on AI’s Flood of Security Bugs & Linux's... description: Linus Torvalds discusses the impact of AI tools on Linux kernel development in a conversation hosted by the Linux Foundation. Over the last six months,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linus-torvalds-on-ai-s-flood-of-security-bugs-linux-s-future-hw7cl8xlm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linus Torvalds on AI’s Flood of Security Bugs & Linux's Future | daily.dev og:description: Linus Torvalds discusses the impact of AI tools on Linux kernel development in a conversation hosted by the Linux Foundation. Over the last six months,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linus-torvalds-on-ai-s-flood-of-security-bugs-linux-s-future-hw7cl8xlm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hw7cL8xlM.png og:image:alt: Linus Torvalds on AI’s Flood of Security Bugs & Linux's Future 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. # Linus Torvalds on AI’s Flood of Security Bugs & Linux's Future **[SavvyNik](https://daily.dev/sources/savvynik)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linus Torvalds discusses the impact of AI tools on Linux kernel development in a conversation hosted by the Linux Foundation. Over the last six months, AI-assisted development has driven a roughly 20% increase in kernel commits. While Torvalds personally enjoys AI and sees long-term value in its ability to find bugs, he highlights serious social pain points: the security mailing list has been flooded with duplicate AI-generated bug reports, and companies are rushing to publicly disclose vulnerabilities before maintainers can prepare patches. In response, the kernel project updated its security disclosure guidelines, treating AI-discovered bugs as effectively public since many people running the same tools will find the same issues simultaneously. Torvalds remains optimistic overall, viewing bug discovery as net positive, but stresses that the community still needs to work out responsible norms around AI-generated contributions and disclosures. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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