AI + Wasm: Sandboxing codegen, fixing Wasmtime fast, & new research | WebAssembly Unleashed

AI is making code generation feel effortless, but it’s also flooding systems with more untrusted, machine-written logic than most teams are prepared to safely run. In this episode of WebAssembly Unleashed, Joel Moses and Oscar Spencer zoom out on what that shift means for WebAssembly, security, and the future of software development, with special guest Ben Titzer, Director of the WebAssembly Research Institute at Carnegie Mellon and one of the principal creators of the WebAssembly standard.

They start with a timely catalyst: a Bytecode Alliance Wasmtime security sprint where engineers used…