Amazons AI Coding Revealed a Dirty Little Secret

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Coders who use artificial intelligence to help them write software are facing a growing problem, and Amazon.com Inc. is the latest company to fall victim. A hacker was recently able to infiltrate an AI-powered plugin for Amazon’s coding tool,(1) secretly instructing it to delete files from the computers it was used on. The incident points to a gaping security hole in generative AI that has gone largely unnoticed in the race to capitalize on the technology.    

One of the most popular uses of AI today is in…