Artificial intelligence is making crypto hacking cheaper, easier, and faster — and it’s allowing attackers to overwhelm defenders and potentially steal millions of dollars.

Bad actors are now using the large language models that power AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude to search thousands of lines of code a second. Their goal? Identify vulnerabilities that have slipped by developers and auditors.

And it’s old, undermaintained deployments that are most at risk, crypto security experts warn.

“AI has made legacy-contract hunting cheaper,…