Anthropic Study Confirms AI Agents Can Weaponize Smart Contract Exploits at Scale
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AI agents simulated smart-contract exploits worth $4.6 million, revealing zero-day vulnerabilities in new blockchain contracts. Concerns arise about the potential for AI to automate cyberattacks on DeFi protocols.
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- AI agents reproduced real-world smart-contract exploits worth $4.6 million in simulated value.
- Models identified new zero-day vulnerabilities in recently deployed blockchain contracts.
- Findings raise concerns about AI’s role in future automated cyberattacks.
Anthropic reported that advanced AI agents successfully exploited known blockchain vulnerabilities worth $4.6 million in simulations. The agents also uncovered new security flaws in recently deployed smart-contract code, all evaluated within local blockchain environments.
The tests were conducted using a controlled benchmark designed to measure how AI handles real-world cyber risks.
AI Models Recreate Real-World Blockchain Exploits
Anthropic and the Machine Learning for Alignment and Theory Scholars program created SCONE-bench, a dataset of 405 smart contracts that were hacked between 2020 and 2025.
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