hackers are already using AI to find vulnerabilities. the people defending protocols are still debating whether it's okay to use it. let that sink in for a second. while whitehats are having ethical discussions about AI in security, blackhats already answered that question and moved on. they're using it to scan codebases faster, generate exploit hypotheses, and find the edge cases human auditors miss after a long review session. the attack side has always moved faster than the defense side. AI just made that gap wider. this isn't a prediction about the future of security. it's what's already happening. the $2.1B lost to exploits last year didn't happen because attackers were smarter. it happened because they were less hesitant. the auditors and researchers who figure out how to use AI as a weapon before their targets do are the ones who will define what web3 security looks like in 3 years. the ones waiting for permission are already behind.