Scaling Memory Safety: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C++ Dependencies to Rust

Google's Open Source Security Team is scaling memory safety by using AI-assisted rewrites to convert C/C++ dependencies to Rust, aiming to eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities in critical software. The initiative leverages large language models to automate the translation process, addressing the challenge of manually rewriting millions of lines of legacy code. This effort is part of Google's broader strategy to reduce memory safety bugs, which account for the majority of security vulnerabilities in software.