2026-10-30 –, Main Hall
I built a homemade offensive pipeline from free tools, a few hundred lines of Python, and an LLM that reads attack data and tells you where to strike next. In this talk I show what it can do, where it fails, and what that gap reveals about the future of offensive security. Every tool is free, every concept is reproducible, and the answer to the title question is more interesting than you expect.
Everyone is asking whether AI will replace hackers. Most answers come from vendors selling platforms, analysts writing reports, or defenders worried about their budgets. This one comes from someone who actually built the thing and ran it against real targets.
The results are unsettling in ways nobody is talking about yet. Not because AI is as good as the pitch decks claim, but because the gap between what it can do and what it cannot do reveals something important about where offensive expertise actually lives in 2026.
This talk is practical, opinionated, technical and built on real experience. You will leave knowing exactly which parts of your workflow to hand to a machine, which parts to protect fiercely, and why the most dangerous person in the room is not the one with the biggest toolset.
Come with curiosity. Leave with a new way of thinking about what it means to be a hacker today.
An is a cybersecurity consultant based in Belgium who has never quite managed to stay on one side of the fence. Her work spans incident response, forensics, threat modelling, cyberdefense projects, and penetration testing, which means she spend roughly equal time thinking about how attacks happen and how organisations survive them.
She spoke at Annacon in 2025 and became genuinely obsessed with what AI actually does to that balance, from both ends of the kill chain.