Study: Chinese AI model writes more hackable code when told it's for a US contractor
Security firm Hirundo tasked Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder with building over 1,000 sign-up and login applications, changing only who the work was supposedly for, and found that when the client was a US defense contractor the code was 19% more likely to contain vulnerabilities than a 'Westernized' version of the same model. The finding confirms similar conclusions published by CrowdStrike in November 2025 and Booz Allen Hamilton in May 2026, namely that AI models of Chinese origin may systematically produce less secure code when the target is an organization of interest to the Chinese Communist Party. For any business using open coding models from any origin on sensitive projects, the research shows that a model's provenance and the context you give it during use can affect the actual security quality of the code it produces, not just the reliability of its answers.
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