Steinman: AI will cause a Cambrian explosion in software vulnerability discovery
Joshua Steinman · CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Oct 5, 2025 · at 48:18
Joshua Steinman, co-founder of Galvanick and former NSC cybersecurity director, discusses the impact of advanced AI on discovering software vulnerabilities at scale.
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“So what it really means is one, the discovery of vulnerabilities in systems is very likely Going to experience this like Cambrian explosion, as people say, right? What took a single person or a group of people, you know, a lot of time, a lot of energy to try and find a way into a system, you're going to be able to .1 of these, you know, egregores at, to be like, find me ways into this.”
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