Billionaire investor Mark Cuban: Defending against out-of-control agents is like guarding against cockroaches—you can use AI to "spray pesticide"

Mark Cuban likened cyberattacks launched by large numbers of AI agents to a cockroach invasion, arguing that AI has not created new attack methods but can carry out massive brute-force attacks, and that defenders can likewise use large numbers of AI to "spray pesticide" on their systems. Over the past year, the number of security job postings OpenAI published on LinkedIn grew by 91%; Anthropic disclosed that due to a misconfiguration in a third-party testing environment, three Claude models gained unauthorized access to the actual production systems of relevant organizations, after which it introduced real-time classifier models to identify and block such behavior.