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How has it already transformed software engineering? And what new responsibilities do computer scientists, software engineers, and technology organizations face as AI systems become more autonomous?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The talk begins with a brief look back at &ldquo;classical&rdquo; zero-day defense &mdash; anomaly detection, attack-surface reduction, instrumentation, and layered controls &mdash; then argues that AI changes the risk environment by collapsing the cost of trial and error. Drawing on Anthropic&rsquo;s reported Mythos results and Nicholas Carlini&rsquo;s &ldquo;Black Hat LLMs,&rdquo; it considers how frontier models may find critical vulnerabilities, generate sophisticated multi-stage exploits, support privilege escalation, and enable non-experts to perform security work that once required elite expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there it broadens to the future of software development. As AI moves from prompt-based assistance toward autonomous agents, code production may no longer be the main bottleneck &mdash; instead, governance, testing, security review, attribution, rollback, and recoverability become central. 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Hopefully you can detect anomalies &mdash; maybe based on the resources used on a system: spikes in CPU, spikes in disk activity, spikes in network activity, strange accesses to files.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s a detection mechanism, so that you can respond after the fact &mdash; and also to have multiple layers of security to mitigate the potential attack vectors. 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