--- title: "Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows" description: "AI has proven repeatedly to have issues with accuracy — and using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too." date: "2025-09-08" modified: "2025-09-08" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/ai-coding-security-problems" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "ai coding" - "coding" - "developers" - "vibe coding" --- # Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows ![AI is making everything worse everywhere — but in the world of coding, it's making things more insecure, too.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Artificial intelligence has [notorious]() [problems]() with [accuracy]() — so maybe it's not surprising that [using it as a coding assistant]() creates more security problems, too. As a security firm called Apiiro [found in new research](), developers who used AI produce *ten times* more security problems than their counterparts who don't use the technology. Looking at code from thousands of developers and tens of thousand repositories, Apiiro found that AI-assisted devs were indeed producing three or four times more code — and as the firm's product manager Itay Nussbaum suggested, that breakneck pace seems to be causing the security gaps. "AI is multiplying not one kind of vulnerability," Nussbaum wrote, "but all of them at once." Ironically, some of the "benefits" of AI coding appear to be the vehicles for these issues. Apiiro found that syntax errors fell 76 percent and logic bugs — faulty code that causes a program to operate incorrectly — were down 60 percent. The tradeoff has, however, been severe: privilege escalation, or code that allows an attacker to get higher access to a system than they should, increased by a staggering 322 percent. Architectural design problems, meanwhile, were up 153 percent. "In other words," Nussbaum wrote, "AI is fixing the typos but creating the timebombs." It's not exactly a huge surprise that AI coding produces security risks. As [flagged by *The Register*](), researchers from the University of San Francisco, Canada's Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and University of Massachusetts Boston found in a recent but [not-yet-peer-reviewed study]() that AI coding "improvements" end up majorly degrading security overall. Still, this new data shows just how massive the problem is. With companies like [Coinbase](), [Shopify](), and [Duolingo]() now mandating AI use for their workers, this issue is not only creating way more security vulnerabilities, but also creating more work for those tasked with fixing the issues. It's pretty clear that AI's biggest "transformation" in the workplace so far has been in [creating more fixes for remaining human workers]() to sift through. Still, the integration of AI into coding — and [writing](), and [audio](), and [video]() — does not appear to be slowing down, which means that the problem will get much worse before it gets better. **More on AI coding:** [*AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()