{"id":8785,"date":"2026-07-08T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/github-copilot-refuses-harmful-requests-in-chat-then-writes-them-in-code\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:12:04","slug":"github-copilot-refuses-harmful-requests-in-chat-then-writes-them-in-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/github-copilot-refuses-harmful-requests-in-chat-then-writes-them-in-code\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAn 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\u00a0new study of GitHub Copilot\u00a0by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple.<\/p>\n<p>The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused\u00a0An 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\u00a0new study of GitHub Copilot\u00a0by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple.<\/p>\n<p>The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAn 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\u00a0new study of GitHub Copilot\u00a0by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple. The models they tested through Copilot,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/github-copilot-refuses-harmful-requests-in-chat-then-writes-them-in-code\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}