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Jul 2023
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The Huge Power and Potential Danger of A...

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Programming can be faster when algorithms help out, but there is evidence AI coding assistants also make bugs more common. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.

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