Rust is gaining significant traction in the automotive sector, just as AI is reshaping how software gets built: the value of writing code by hand is collapsing — what’s scarce now is the guarantee that it’s correct. Rust and AI turn out to be a natural fit: a strong type system and an uncompromising compiler give AI the guardrails it needs, turning “generate and hope” into “generate and verify”. That combination is the catalyst.
Vector is leveraging exactly this to build the ecosystem for engineering safe and secure cyber-physical systems in the era of AI. This talk goes under the hood of that ecosystem’s foundation: a deterministic async runtime and an actor framework built on top of it. It enables an observe–adapt workflow, where developers or AI agents observe the running system and adapt it. Building on top of this determinism we can make the whole distributed cyber-physical system reproducible and verifiable. And this is only the foundation for where Vector is taking the ecosystem from here.
