agentsastLast reviewed 2026-09-13

AI-assisted audit vs AI audit

Direct answerAn AI-assisted audit is a human-signed report in which AI widened coverage; an AI audit is machine output with no accountable reviewer.

In more detail

The distinction decides what a report is worth to an insurer, an exchange listing team or a grant committee. Ask which one you are buying.

False positive rate, Precision vs recall, Agentic scanning, LLM plus fuzzing, LLM plus symbolic execution or formal verification, Hallucinated vulnerabilities, Triage burden, Benchmark contamination, Human-in-the-loop, Prompt injection in auditing pipelines, Responsible disclosure of AI-found bugs, Continuous scanning and run-count coverage, Proof-of-concept harness, Threat model file, Severity calibration

Getting help

Firms on this index that handle this in practice: zkSecurity, Trail of Bits, Zellic, Nethermind Security.