Cryptographer asks: is AI-generated code more or less likely to have vulnerabilities?
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-22
Cryptographer Matthew Green (Johns Hopkins) raises the follow-up question: is AI-generated code — which varies heavily by model — more or less likely to contain vulnerabilities than human code? He notes nobody is tracking that data, and argues the labs should have been required to, as a condition of their researcher access programs.
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