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Tech debt coming due: Obama's ex-aide on AI finding software flaws

short by Vaishnavi Mishra / on Sunday, 25 October, 2026
Michael Daniel, former special assistant to US President Barack Obama, discussed AI's impact after two critical PHP flaws were discovered. He warned that AI models capable of identifying software vulnerabilities rapidly and at scale would trigger a surge in similar discoveries. He described this as a "great cleansing forest fire" of old software, saying industry's "tech debt" was coming due.
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