Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said artificial intelligence could expand brute-force cyberattacks by allowing more agents to be used at once, while defenders could use the technology to respond.
He made the remarks in a Reuters video interview at Total Health in Nashville on Oct. 23. Cuban described the risk as an increase in scale rather than a new hacking method. To illustrate the possibility, he invoked cockroaches and said a large group of agents might eventually find a way into a system and exploit it.
Cuban also said defenders could use AI against such attacks and called himself “not a doomer at all.” His comments presented AI as a tool that could be used on both sides of a cyberattack.
Reuters Events scheduled the interview for noon ET (4 p.m. UTC) and named Reuters U.S. Health and Pharma Editor Caroline Humer as the interviewer. The event listing said the broader conversation would cover AI in medicine, prescription drug costs and healthcare investment.
Business Insider and Benzinga’s accounts did not name a specific attack or defensive product, and provided no test results for AI-based defenses. They also gave no measure of how AI might affect the frequency or success rate of cyberattacks.
