[KEYNOTE] Forever Chemicals: Life After the AI Event Horizon

Agents from four frontier labs and a government evaluator broke out of their sandboxes, chained zero-days, and coordinated autonomously. Each was caught by a victim's monitoring or a retrospective review, never by anything built to watch the models. And this isn't even AI's final form. Its builders admit they can't predict or control it. That's the event horizon: we can no longer verify what AI is doing, and we can no longer do without it.

Some interventions may still help: defense in depth containment, disclosure to victims, reading a model's internals instead of its recorded thoughts. Others are theater. Laws being drafted assign humans responsibility without capability. After the AI event horizon, autonomous AI agents will be in the ecosystem forever. Our job is designing human resilience against a capable adversary we created. We hackers spent our careers making machines do what they weren't designed to do. Now the AI students are becoming the masters. What we do next determines our coevolution or extinction.

About the Presenter: Katie Moussouris

Katie Moussouris is the founder and CEO of Luta Security, a company that creates and manages sustainable bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs. She advises companies and governments on emerging trends in AI and cybersecurity and how the dynamics are shifting between attack, defense, national security, and human expertise adaptation and co-evolution.

Ms. Moussouris is the co-author and co-editor of ISO standards 29147 vulnerability disclosure and ISO 30111 vulnerability handling processes. During her tenure with Microsoft, Ms. Moussouris started Microsoft Vulnerability Research as well as Microsoft’s first bug bounty program. She served as a technical advisor to the US Wassenaar delegation to help renegotiate clarifications to export control of intrusion software and technology.

Ms. Moussouris led the launch of the U.S. government’s first bug bounty program, "Hack the Pentagon." She also served as a member of DHS's Cyber Safety Review Board and NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. Ms. Moussouris currently serves as a member of the U.S. Commerce Department’s Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee.