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Jess Kinghorn

'It's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either': Linus Torvalds addresses anti-AI sentiment in Linux development

PORTLAND, OR - OCTOBER,16: Linus Torvalds, a software engineer and principal creator of the Linux kernel, poses for a portrait at his home in Portland, Ore. on Friday, October 16, 2015.

Linux likers and AI dislikers, it's time to raid the cutlery drawer and fork your favourite distro. Why? Because Linus Torvalds has declared that Linux is not an "anti-AI" project.

Torvalds recently responded to a discussion about Sashiko, an agentic Linux kernel code review system, writing, "I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects." His full response has been preserved via the archive for Linux kernel mailing lists, lore.kernel.org (via The Register).

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