Nicholas Carlini – an AI researcher at Anthropic – came to the much vaunted Black-hat conference in Feb 2026. He gave a chilling warning: we have AI’s now that are finding so many zero-day bugs that we simply can’t file them fast enough. A storm is coming and he was begging for help.

The security community (much like the open source community) has largely scoffed at ‘AI slop’. That’s all changed in the last 6 months. What has since come to light is exactly what he said. Linux is now having weekly bug fixes in the hundreds. Oracle in the thousands.