Person

Neil Perry

Computer science researcher studying security risks when developers use AI coding assistants.

Why this matters

Perry asks whether speed tools quietly lower the security bar—assistance that ships vulnerabilities faster than review can catch.

Focus in observatory

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article

Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?

Perry, Neil, Megha Srivastava, Deepak Kumar, and Dan Boneh. "Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?" *Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)*. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576915.3623157.

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