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> GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 08/07/2026 11:21] [LANGUAGE: EN]
GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code
An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple. The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused
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