I think if AI can help us modernize the current state of hardware verification, I think that would be an enormous boon to the tech industry.

Server class CPUs and GPUs are littered with side channels which are very difficult to “close”, even in hardened cloud VMs.

We haven’t verified “frontier performance” hardware down to the logic gate in quite some time. Prof. Margaret Martinosi’s lab and her students have spent quite some time on this challenge, and i am excited to see better, safer memory models oyt in the wild.

A lot of the same big ideas used in hardware are making their way into the software later too, see https://faultlore.com/blah/tower-of-weakenings/