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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.

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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...