PP128: The Unseen Impacts of AI on Vulnerability Research

AI is dramatically increasing the volume of vulnerabilities being discovered, but verification, validation, and remediation capacity has not scaled with it—creating a new operational bottleneck for security and IT teams. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic risk is twofold: more findings can overwhelm prioritization and patching processes, and heavy reliance on AI tools can narrow research focus so important threat classes are missed; organizations need AI to augment, not replace, human judgment.