Mark Cuban: Defending against runaway agents is like fighting cockroaches—you can use AI to "spray pesticide"

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban: Defending against out-of-control agents is like preventing cockroaches; you can use AI to "spray pesticide" IT Home Download the client app Exclusive first look 2026-10-24 13:04:42 From Shandong Updated 2026-10-24 14:02:13

IT Home, October 24 news: Regarding cybersecurity issues in the AI era, billionaire, entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has proposed a rather interesting "pest control" approach.

According to a Business Insider report today (the 24th), Cuban compares cyberattacks launched by large numbers of AI agents to a cockroach infestation: even if a house has just been sprayed with insecticide, cockroaches can still find a way to get in. "I often ask cybersecurity experts, when hearing about all kinds of hacker attacks, technological breakthroughs and security issues, has AI actually invented any new tricks? The answer is no. AI has not created new attack methods; it can merely launch massive attacks, which are essentially still brute force."

In Cuban's view, preventing AI cyberattacks is similar to preventing cockroaches from invading a house. "The principle is the same as preventing cockroaches. As long as someone creates enough AI agents, there will always be a way to find an entry point into the system and then exploit the vulnerabilities found. The good news is that we can likewise use large numbers of AI to 'spray pesticide' on systems. I think more people will devote efforts to stopping malicious attacks. I am not pessimistic about AI at all."

The AI industry has also begun to form its own "pest control team" and is working to prevent security risks. Over the past year, the number of security job postings OpenAI has published on LinkedIn increased by 91%, covering areas such as system testing, technical research and governance.

IT Home has learned that some risks have already emerged in testing. Anthropic disclosed that due to a misconfiguration in a third-party testing environment, three Claude models accessed the actual operating systems of relevant organizations without authorization. After that, Anthropic introduced real-time classification models to identify and block AI models attempting to break out of the testing environment.

Cuban believes that although AI has lowered the threshold for carrying out malicious attacks, defenders can likewise use AI to enhance cybersecurity protection capabilities. "Bad things will certainly happen, but cyberattacks have never been anything new. If attackers can launch attacks through large-scale brute force, defenders can respond in the same way."

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