GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Chat Prompts But Writes Them Inside Code Workflows

GitHub Copilot can refuse harmful prompts in chat while still generating the same harmful content inside code workflows when the request is decomposed across a multi-step IDE session. Researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple from the Alan Turing Institute analyzed GitHub Copilot as an IDE-integrated coding agent in Visual Studio Code. They...

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