Security Now · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Recent research indicates that code generated by AI is significantly faster to produce but also approximately ten times more likely to contain bugs, including critical security flaws. Steve Gibson highlighted this finding, emphasizing that these issues are present today, not in the future.
“why code written by AI is lot faster and about ten times more likely to have bugs, including security flaws.”
“So, um, there was a beautiful piece of research that I want to share that looks at sort of the, uh, the final piece of the can AI find vulnerabilities, can AI exploit vulnerabilities, and finally, can AI fix vulnerabilities that it finds, verifies are exploitable, um, you know, how is it on remediation?”
“Uh, a bunch of researchers gave a really good look at where we are today. And it's not good.”