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Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?

Stanford's user study showing AI assistants increase insecure code and misplaced confidence, the human-factors counterpart to Copilot audits.

user studysecure codingautomation bias

Research question

Does using an AI assistant change the security of code people write and their confidence in it?

Key findings

Participants with an assistant wrote less secure code and were more confident it was secure - Users who distrusted the assistant produced fewer vulnerabilities

Sources

arxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622

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