BLACKSBURG, Va., June 11 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

What happens when people no longer fully understand the software artificial intelligence (AI) creates?

That question is at the center of new research led by Muhammad Ali Gulzar, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, who received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to pursue it.

"AI has made software creation dramatically easier," Gulzar said. "But the long-term challenge is that humans may no longer fully understand the code being produced, which creates serious issues when something breaks or needs to be updated."

His lab is working to make AI-ass...