About whether AI security tools can match high-quality human vulnerability researchers.
Has this happened?
Yes 34 (34%)Not sure 43 (43%)No 24 (24%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI security tools can match high-quality human vulnerability researchers.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
People who don't do intense security work for a living underestimate the complexity of it. This might find some vulnerabilities, but it's not really capable of producing new methods and attacks. What it replaces isn't a high quality human researcher; it replaces current static code review systems.
If AI models never had stack smashing writeups in their corpus, they'd never be able to invent stack smashing.