Feature Interview: Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic

About this episode

Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic discusses advancements in AI-driven vulnerability research and the capabilities of their model Opus 4.6.

In this episode, Anthropic’s Nicholas Carlini joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to talk about advancements in AI-driven vulnerability research and exploit development. Nicholas’ talk at the recent [un]prompted conference demonstrated how Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 could find and exploit vulnerabilities in popular open source projects. In the short few weeks since then, Anthropic announced a new model that’s already identifying hundreds of bug fixes across critical software. Nicholas talks us through the work he does at Anthropic, what’s possible and the limitations with current frontier models, and where this goes from here. This episode is also available on YouTube

People in this episode

Hosts: Patrick Gray, James Wilson

Guest: Nicholas Carlini

Topics covered

• AI-driven vulnerability research
• exploit development
• open source vulnerabilities
• software bug fixes
• frontier models

Keywords

• AI
• vulnerability research
• exploit development
• open source
• bug fixes
• Anthropic
• Opus 4.6

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic

Products: Opus 4.6

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