Rust will save Linux from AI, says Greg Kroah-Hartman

ZDNet reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman's Rust Week keynote arguing that adopting Rust in the Linux kernel can eliminate many C-related classes of bugs exposed by recent AI-driven vulnerability research. He highlights Rust's compile-time safety (scoped locks, type-enforced validation of untrusted data), the practical, evolutionary path for adding Rust code (new drivers and bindings rather than wholesale rewrites), and cautions that Rust is not a silver bullet while noting the kernel community now treats Rust as a permanent, production-ready option.