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Mark Cuban says the best defense against malicious AI agents is more AI
By Katherine Li
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Mark Cuban offers pest-control tips for the AI age:
"When I go talk to cybersecurity experts, I ask them all the time. I'm like, when we hear about these hacks and breakthroughs and, you know, different problems, do these AIs invent something new?" Cuban said.
"No, they didn't invent something new," Cuban added. "But they're able to do something in mass volume that it's all brute force hacks."
He compared the challenge to keeping cockroaches out of a house, stating, "It's like the cockroach theory, where if somebody can create enough agents, it'll find a way to get in, and then it just exploits that. But the good news is you can spray your systems with just as much AI..."
The AI industry is already creating its own team of exterminators to contain risks.
OpenAI has seen a 91% jump in safety roles on LinkedIn over the past year, spanning work such as system testing, technical research, and governance.
Cuban acknowledged risks but also expressed optimism, saying, "There will be scenarios where bad stuff happens, but we've always had hacks."