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Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions

📅 2021

technical research breakthrough

🔵 Rare

📖 Description

Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot?s Code Contributions Hammond Pearce Department of ECE New York University Brooklyn, NY , USA [email address redacted] Ahmad Department of ECE New York University Brooklyn, NY , USA [email address redacted] Tan Department of ESE University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, CA [email address redacted] Dolan-Gavitt Department of CSE New York University Brooklyn, NY , USA [email address redacted] Karri Department of ECE New York University Brooklyn, NY , USA [email address redacted] Abstract ?There is burgeoning interest in designing AI-based systems to assist humans in designing computing systems, including tools that automatically generate computer code. The most notable of these comes in the form of the ?rst self-described ?AI pair programmer?, GitHub Copilot, which is a language model trained over open-source GitHub code. However, code often contains bugs?and so, given the vast quantity of unvetted code that Copilot has pro...

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Variable	Direction	Condition
Research	proposed: up	Always
Papers	proposed: up	Always
Vibey Doom	proposed: up	Always

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🔗 Sources

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09293

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