{"id":199920,"date":"2025-12-19T17:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199920"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:34:43","slug":"ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199920","title":{"rendered":"AI Smart Contract Exploits: Expert Warns Agents Could Trigger $10\u201320B Annual Losses in DeFi Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by MATS and Anthropic Fellows confirms that AI agents can profitably exploit smart contract vulnerabilities, establishing a \u201cconcrete lower bound\u201d for economic harm. Novel Exploits and Alarming Cost Reduction The accelerating push to automate human tasks with Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents now confronts a significant&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by MATS and Anthropic Fellows confirms that AI agents can profitably exploit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector.png",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector-768x432.png",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector-1024x576.png",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector.png",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector.png",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector-1024x576.png",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector-825x575.png",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199920-ai-smart-contract-exploits-expert-warns-agents-could-trigger-10-20b-annual-losses-in-defi-sector-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}