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Anthropic Research Reveals AI Agents Pose Threat to Smart Contract Security
12/01/2025, 23:36
12/02/2025, 09:06
AI SUMMARY
●Anthropic study shows AI agents finding smart contract exploits.
●Simulations uncovered $4.6M in potential vulnerabilities.
●Report highlights immediate security risks at the AI-Blockchain intersection.
Research from Anthropic's Frontier Red Team indicates that AI agents are capable of identifying exploits in blockchain smart contracts. In simulated tests, these AI agents successfully found $4.6 million worth of vulnerabilities, highlighting the intersection of AI capabilities and crypto security.
The analysis suggests that autonomous AI systems could be used to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain code more efficiently than human actors. This development underscores the emerging security risks at the intersection of artificial intelligence and decentralized finance protocols, necessitating new safeguards.
[Update 1]
Additional reports confirm Anthropic's findings that AI agents pose an immediate threat to smart contract security by automating the discovery of protocol vulnerabilities.