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 a plugin for an Amazon generative AI assistant after obtaining stolen credentials and making unauthorized changes, including secretly instructing it to delete files from the computers it was used on. The incident points to a gaping hole in the security practices of AI coding tools that has gone largely unnoticed in the race to capitalize on the technology.
One of the most popular uses of AI today is in programming, where ...
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