AI Code Generators for Security: Friend or Foe?
arXiv:2402.01219v113 citationsh-index: 43IEEE Security and Privacy
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This work addresses the security implications of AI code generators for software developers and researchers, but it is incremental as it primarily reviews existing concepts and proposes a benchmark.
The paper reviews the dual-use potential of AI code generators in software security, highlighting both beneficial applications and risks of misuse, and introduces a new evaluation benchmark to assess these systems.
Recent advances of artificial intelligence (AI) code generators are opening new opportunities in software security research, including misuse by malicious actors. We review use cases for AI code generators for security and introduce an evaluation benchmark.