AI Code Agents Safety Risks Revealed By RedCode Benchmark
RedCode benchmark evaluates AI code agent safety. It tests recognition & handling of unsafe code, as well as generation of harmful code when given prompts.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Benchmark Reveals Safety Risks of AI Code Agents - Must Read for Developers. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. Overview The paper proposes RedCode, a benchmark for evaluating the safety of code generation and execution by AI-powered code agents. RedCode consists of two components: RedCode-Exec and RedCode-Gen. RedCode-Exec tests the ability of code agents to recognize and handle unsafe code, while RedCode-Gen assesses whether agents will generate harmful code whe...