Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code

Millions of developers share their keyboard with GitHub Copilot. Inside Visual Studio Code, it opens their files, writes and edits code, runs scripts, and reworks its own output across many turns. The safety testing that vets these agents still runs on chatbot rules: one harmful prompt, one response, graded alone. That rulebook misses where the real danger sits, according to a study from the Alan Turing Institute in London. The researchers, Abhishek Kumar and Carsten … More

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