{"id":255854,"date":"2026-05-26T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-to-ai-built-code\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:25:08","slug":"njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-to-ai-built-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-to-ai-built-code\/","title":{"rendered":"NJIT Cybersecurity Research Adds Protection to AI-Built Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.njit.edu\/njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-ai-built-code\">NJIT Cybersecurity Research Adds Protection to AI-Built Code<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.njit.edu\/njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-ai-built-code\">https:\/\/news.njit.edu\/njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-ai-built-code<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 09:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.njit.edu\">news.njit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image created with AI<\/p>\n<p>Software that will harden the security of AI-developed code is being developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology, funded by a $450,000 National Science Foundation grant.<\/p>\n<p>NJIT professors Zephyr Yao and Iulian Neamtiu decided they\u2019d seen enough of the downside of programming assisted by artificial intelligence \u2014 that this increasingly common process creates too many bugs \u2014 so they\u2019re taking action now before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUndeniably, more and more programmers are using AI to help them write code, and somehow this looks productive, but it carries a lot of risk. They don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re writing, and AI-generated code may look very nice and polished, right? And it still contains security errors,\u201d Yao explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an incoming wave of unscrutinized low-quality code generated by AI. We must act urgently to prevent that code from turning into widespread software disasters, or at least reduce the impact of such code,&#8221; Neamtiu added.<\/p>\n<p>Citing prior studies and their own preliminary work, Yao and Neamtiu stated that 40% of programs generated by large language models are buggy, 65% of an LLM\u2019s first attempts at code generation are simply insecure and attempting to fix these issues by adding more prompts only makes it worse.<\/p>\n<p>With the planned framework, not yet named, a developer would connect their code repository such as GitHub to their preferred AI system. The AI could be a mainstream system like Claude, Codex or CoPilot. It could also be something proprietary to an organization.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when acting on the developer\u2019s prompt, the framework adds security guardrails \u2014 \u201cNot just to write code, but also what safety rules the code has to follow. Then we check those against the generated code, look for security problems and guide AI to improve it iteratively,\u201d Yao noted.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers use both static and dynamic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.njit.edu\/njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-ai-built-code\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJIT Cybersecurity Research Adds Protection to AI-Built Code https:\/\/news.njit.edu\/njit-cybersecurity-research-adds-protection-ai-built-code Publish Date: 2026-05-26 09:59:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.njit.edu\/sites\/news\/files\/Gemini_Generated_Image_hya74thya74thya7.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,18,57],"class_list":["post-255854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255857,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255854\/revisions\/255857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}