FUTURE

The Ethics of Autonomous Debugging Agents

Binary Ethicist

Core_Engineer

Date

DEC 28, 2025

Time

9 min

The Ethics of Autonomous Debugging Agents

Who Owns the Code?

As AI agents move from writing boilerplate to fixing security vulnerabilities, we face a new dilemma: traceability. If an AI "fixes" a database race condition but introduces a subtle logic flaw that costs a company millions, where does the liability lie?

The "Black Box" Logic

We are seeing cases where AI agents find "hacks" that work but are incomprehensible to human engineers. We must enforce strict "Explainable AI" policies in our CI/CD pipelines.