Formal Verification: The Final Line of Defense in the AI Era

On July 19, 2024, a security software update from CrowdStrike caused 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide to crash. Flights were grounded, banks went offline, and hospitals were paralyzed, resulting in economic losses exceeding 10 billion dollars. The cause of this disaster was a mere C++ Out-of-bounds Read memory error. Imagine if this line of code hadn't been written by a human engineer, but…