Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

Reported by Schneier on Security (Bruce Schneier)

Summary by Cyber Security News26 Oct 2026, 12:03 CET

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Interesting research: TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model’s weights, and that removing the model’s CCP alignment removes it. One word tilts the code against Americans.

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