How AI Anxieties Dominated the Summer's Big Cybersecurity Conference
CyberSecurity Dive, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
A reporter's notebook on Black Hat, where AI concerns ran through CVE Program debates and autonomous attack scenarios.
This reporter's notebook from Black Hat captures how thoroughly AI concerns dominated the conference agenda, running through discussions of the CVE Program's future, autonomous attack scenarios and the disclosure process.
The through-line is that AI has destabilized processes the industry treats as settled infrastructure, particularly vulnerability coordination, which assumes human-paced discovery.
The piece is a useful summary for anyone who did not attend, and it identifies which of the anxieties are backed by demonstrated capability versus which remain speculative.