CertiK Report: Agentic AI Shifts From Security Tool to Autonomous ‘AI Employee’

The shift CertiK describes is less about capability than about accountability: once agents judge and act within permissions, the audit surface expands to include the agent itself, not just the code it reviews. That affects compliance and security teams who currently treat AI as a tool rather than a counterparty with its own on-chain footprint. The Bybit tracing figure illustrates the operational value at stake, but it also shows how quickly funds move — a window that autonomous monitoring is meant to compress. Whether firms can pair that speed with clear human ownership of agent decisions is the open question.