Programming Safety and Security in the Age of AI

AI can help, but developing safety and secure software requires much more.

William G. Wong

Chuck Brokish

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Electronic Design

Oct. 13, 2026

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What you’ll learn:

Why secure and safe software development isn’t something you add.
How AI is and is not being used for software development.

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Artificial-intelligence and machine-learning (AI/ML) tools have changed how software is designed and tested. However, developing safe and secure software that must meet safety requirements, e.g., ISO 26262 and DO-179C, or security standards such as ISO/IEC 27001 goes much further than applying those tools.

In this episode, I talk with Chuck Brokish, Director of Automotive Business Development at Green Hills Software, about developing safe and secure software and how AI may come into play. Tools like static analysis remain the basis for the development process and standards such as MISRA C/C++ can be checked using static analysis. AI is able to provide suggestions for finding and fixing errors, but it’s not always reliable in enforcing standards.

About the Author

William G. Wong

Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.

Chuck Brokish

Director of Automotive Business Development, Green Hills Software

Chuck Brokish is Director of Automotive Business Development at Green Hills Software. He has over 30 years of experience in the embedded systems, in areas of mobile communications, automotive active noise control, infotainment, ADAS, and V2X. He has been working on embedded security for over 25 years.