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CrowdStrike CEO on Anthropic’s AI safety warning: ‘The genie’s out of the bottle’

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Source: CNBC TechnologySeptember 14, 2026

Summary

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz argues that slowing AI development won't reduce security risks because dangerous models are already widely available, including both frontier models (the most advanced AI systems) and open-weight models (publicly shared AI systems that anyone can download). He says the real solution is stronger AI-powered cybersecurity tools that can monitor and control AI agents (autonomous programs that make decisions independently) once they are deployed, rather than trying to prevent their development.

Solution / Mitigation

According to Kurtz, companies should implement runtime security monitoring of AI agents. This involves using AI defenses to 'look at what these programs do,' 'put our own guardrails around them at runtime,' 'instrument them to see what they're doing, and prevent them from doing bad things.' He also mentions that AI developers and cybersecurity firms should 'work together to protect models both during development and after deployment' and that 'greater safety in the lab and greater safety in production in runtime is ultimately the best course of action.' The text references Anthropic's Project Glasswing as an example of this approach used to safeguard their Mythos model.