I both agree and disagree. Yes, AI will democratize access to formal methods and will probably increase the adoption of them in areas where they make sense (e.g. safety-critical systems), but no, it won't increase the areas where formal methods are appropriate (probably < 1% of software).
What will happen instead is a more general application of AI systems to verifying software correctness, which should lead to more reliable software. The bottleneck in software quality is in specifying what the behavior needs to be, not in validating conformance to a known specification.
What will happen instead is a more general application of AI systems to verifying software correctness, which should lead to more reliable software. The bottleneck in software quality is in specifying what the behavior needs to be, not in validating conformance to a known specification.