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AI Code Generators for Security: Friend or Foe?

Cryptography and Security 2024-02-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering
Authors: Roberto Natella , Pietro Liguori , Cristina Improta , Bojan Cukic , Domenico Cotroneo
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Abstract

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.

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ai safety

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@article{arxiv.2402.01219,
  title  = {AI Code Generators for Security: Friend or Foe?},
  author = {Roberto Natella and Pietro Liguori and Cristina Improta and Bojan Cukic and Domenico Cotroneo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01219},
  year   = {2024}
}

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