Practical AI podcast: agentic vuln discovery, exploit dev, and fake PoCs
Practical AI · rss · 2026-10-22
The Practical AI podcast hosts Spencer McIntyre, Director of Exploit Development at VulnCheck, on how AI is reshaping offensive security:
- Agents are being used for vulnerability discovery and exploit development, accelerating vuln research while raising reliability and risk questions
- Many public proof-of-concept exploits don't actually work — separating real threats from noise is a growing pain point
- How initial access intelligence helps security teams prioritize genuine threats
- Limits of AI-assisted exploitation, and how AI guardrails can hamper security researchers
A dense episode for anyone tracking AI security and offensive tooling.
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