Research on this wiki: Please see Group:Copilot_Watch_Group/Research for a public-facing and evolving collection of research materials and preliminary conclusions. Please feel free to participate!
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