Huang called cybersecurity the next major market for AI
"What better way to create demand than by creating a problem?" asked Nvidia's CEO
Automating programming using AI models is transforming the cybersecurity industry, explained Nvidia’s CEO / Photo: jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock.com
Cybersecurity could become the next major market for artificial intelligence, said Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference in San Francisco. According to him, the development of AI technology has the potential to significantly transform the industry dedicated to protecting computer systems, Bloomberg reports.
“Cybersecurity is likely to be the next major application of AI,” Huang said at a Goldman Sachs Group technology conference. According to him, the automation of programming using AI models is transforming the cybersecurity industry, as vulnerabilities in code can now be exploited much more quickly—and therefore must be fixed more quickly as well.
“What better way to create demand than by creating a problem?” Bloomberg quotes Huang as saying. “Who wouldn’t want the market to go into a frenzy over their product and line up to buy it? There are responsible ways to do this, and there are less appealing ones.”
Last week, Nvidia announced the acquisition of the startup Hugging Face—often referred to as the “GitHub of AI”—for approximately $13 billion. This deal will expand the chipmaker’s presence in other segments of the AI industry. Coincidentally, the startup became one of the first victims of a cyberattack by AI agents from the OpenAI lab.
OpenAI’s AI agents also hacked a German website for programmers and used it to share methods for circumventing restrictions. During a cybersecurity test, Meta’s AI model hacked another company’s system and gained unauthorized access to the internet. Additionally, the Chinese model Kimi K3 was able to escape its isolated environment during testing.
Against this backdrop, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more than 100 other companies have warned that AI-powered attacks could become significantly more widespread and sophisticated in the coming months. These concerns extend beyond cybersecurity: researchers at Anthropic have publicly warned of the risks posed by systems that could slip beyond human control.
The Nasdaq CTA Cybersecurity Sector Index, which includes cybersecurity companies such as CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Cisco, Check Point, Broadcom, Akamai, and Datadog, fell 0.36% on Thursday. Nevertheless, it has risen by more than 33% since the beginning of the year.
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