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CrowdStrike CEO on Anthropic’s AI safety warning: ‘The genie’s out of the bottle’
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CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Monday that slowing the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models won't eliminate their security risks.
Key facts
- CrowdStrike surged nearly 14% on Monday to a record-high close above $235 per share
- The CEO stressed, "You need equivalent or better AI defenses to combat the AI agents
- Monday's cyber stock rally reflected investors' continued bet on greater demand for security in the future, a dynamic that has led to 100% year-to-date gains in shares of both CrowdStrike and Palo
- CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Monday that slowing the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models won't eliminate their security risks
Summary
"The genie's out of the bottle," Kurtz said on CNBC's " Mad Money. Kurtz was responding to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay over the weekend calling for frontier AI labs to slow the pace of model development amid growing safety concerns. CrowdStrike surged nearly 14% on Monday to a record-high close above $235 per share. Monday's cyber stock rally reflected investors' continued bet on greater demand for security in the future, a dynamic that has led to 100% year-to-date gains in shares of both CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks. Kurtz argued that the need for cybersecurity exists regardless of whether frontier labs slow development because potentially dangerous models are already in use.