AI-discovered flaws are rarely exploited but pose greater risk | TechTarget
Published: 13 Oct 2026
Attackers are exploiting only a tiny fraction of AI-discovered vulnerabilities -- but recent analysis suggests the ones they do exploit tend to be more dangerous to enterprises.
As previously reported by TechTarget, only about 1% of vulnerabilities attributed to AI-assisted discovery were listed as exploited in the wild as of June 2026. That's according to Patrick Garrity, a security researcher at vulnerability prioritization tool maker Vulncheck, who analyzed data from Anthropic's vulnerability disclosure dashboard, the Berkeley Vulnerability Research Initiative and Vulncheck's own known-exploited vulnerability data.
Among publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, however, those found by AI tend to have more serious exploitation consequences than conventional CVEs, according to a separate report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). Half of all AI-discovered vulnerabilities resulted in remote code execution (RCE), GTIG found, compared to just 26% of CVEs discovered by humans or conventional...
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