Group: Copilot Watch Group
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An FSF + community group / wiki page to document developments in the Microsoft GitHub Copilot project and AI pair-programming generally.
Future events:
- 2022-03-07 - FSF moderated general IRC discussion on the papers selected from Copilot call for whitepapers https://www.fsf.org/events/join-us-for-a-general-irc-discussion-on-the-papers-selected-as-part-of-our-copilot-call-for-whitepapers
- 2022-03-03 - Copilot IRC Q&A with Robert F.J. Seddon https://www.fsf.org/events/copilot-irc-q-a-with-robert-f-j-seddon
Ongoing: Libreplanet-discuss discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2022-02/msg00066.html
Ongoing: ai-assist discussion
Ongoing: Lots of discussion is in the FSF member forum, which is private to FSF members. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/introducing-our-new-associate-member-forum
- 2022-02-24 - Publication of the FSF-funded white papers on questions around Copilot announced today! Read the papers and find advocacy-oriented events. Read the announcement at https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white-papers-on-questions-around-copilot
- 2022-02-23 - SFC: New Committee Will Investigate Copyleft Implications of AI-Assisted Programming https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/feb/23/committee-ai-assisted-software-github-copilot/, including a mailing list for discussion.
- 2022-02-03 - Bradley M. Kuhn essay about copilot https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-copyleft-gpl/ (also published as part of FSF's call for whitepapers).
- 2021-08 - Paper: "Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions", finds that security vulnerabilities are very common in copilot generated code https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09293
- 2021-07-28 - FSF-funded call for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot. It identifies some important issues and ideas https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-white-papers-on-philosophical-and-legal-questions-around-copilot
- 2021-07-14 - OpenAI's paper about the copilot machine learning model they created: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374
