Maintaining meaningful control: Navigating agency and oversight in AI-assisted coding

AI is increasingly being adopted by software engineers to generate, edit and debug code. Canada CIFAR AI Chair Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Jin Guo will develop a safety framework for software engineers to understand and control AI-supported coding systems. Their methodology entails gathering practitioner insights, co-designing interfaces and empirical testing. By incorporating human-computer interaction considerations, they aim to provide engineers with more control and insight into the operations of AI-supported coding systems.