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Claude as security researcher and smart-contract exploit performance claims

March 28, 2026Rohan Paul, xjdr, Dean W. Ball

Rohan Paul amplifies Nicolas Carlini’s claims that Claude can outperform him at security research, including smart contract exploitation and finding vulnerabilities in a major GitHub project.

Anthropic top researcher Nicolas Carlini (67.2k citations on Google Scholar) says Claude is a better security researcher than him, made $3.7 mn from exploiting smart contracts, and found vulnerabilities in Ghost (a 52K+ Github star project).
calling Nicholas Carlini "someone at anthropic" instead of "one of the best security researchers alive" is very funny to me
Below is re: AI cyber capabilities. Carlini is an extremely well-regarded and level-headed AI and security researcher
Rohan Paul
xjdr
Dean W. Ball
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