AI Finds Vulns You Can’t With Nicholas Carlini

Returning champion Nicholas Carlini comes back to talk about using Claude for vulnerability research, and the current vulnpocalypse. It's all very high-brow stuff, and the gang learns some bitter lessons.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IDbFLu9Ug8

Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/

Links:

- https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
- https://unpromptedcon.org/
- Black-hat LLMs  
- https://red.anthropic.com/2026/firefox/

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@dadrian)