Despite concerns from earlier research, smart contract developers and auditors told Cointelegraph that AI-assisted coding is improving crypto security.
Smart contract developers and auditors told Cointelegraph that artificial intelligence usage in programming will make crypto safer despite earlier reports suggesting that AI-generated code may introduce new security risks.
A November 2024 report by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology warned that AI-assisted programming can be detrimental for cybersecurity. The paper suggests that AI generates insecure code, and models themselves are vulnerable to attacks and manipulation.
The researchers also noted that generated code may have downstream impacts by ending up in codebases that future AIs are trained on. “Our evaluation results show that almost half of the code snippets produced by these five different models contain bugs,” they stated.
