Source: This is a summary of a talk by Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic researcher) at the [un]prompted 2026 security conference. Watch the original video
Nicholas Carlini presents alarming evidence that modern LLMs can autonomously find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in critical software — including the Linux kernel and production web applications — with minimal scaffolding. He argues this represents a phase shift in the attacker/defender balance comparable in magnitude to the invention of the internet, and urges the security community to treat this as an urgent, present-day threat rather than a future concern.