Time Table

Will AI surpass the world’s best hackers? What enables humans to discover, exploit, and patch vulnerabilities—and where does AI already outperform us, and where does it still fall short? To explore this divide and glimpse the future, I’ll compare how we train top human talent with how we train frontier AI models—and whether the goals are even the same. Yet autonomy and intelligence are only part of the puzzle: new technologies matter only if they can be adopted, and the real barriers to adoption are rarely the obvious ones. Drawing on two decades of experience—from research and winning competition systems to commercializing Mayhem technology —I’ll share the hard-earned lessons, surprises, and setbacks that point toward the future of automatically checking and protecting the world’s systems from attackers.