The article discusses the potential security risks introduced by AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot, which can replicate and amplify existing vulnerabilities in a codebase. It highlights three main issues: command injection vulnerabilities, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection. The author demonstrates how these issues can be mitigated using Snyk Code, a real-time, in-IDE static application security testing scanning and autofixing tool that secures both human-created and AI-generated code. Snyk Code not only detects vulnerable code patterns but also provides fixes for them right within the IDE.