Equity · Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Shardul Shah explains that AI is simultaneously creating a cybersecurity crisis and fueling an investment boom in the sector. He notes that concerns about AI, ranging from extinction events to AI-powered cyberattacks, are driving this dual effect.
“So it's like AI is simultaneously creating this cyber security crisis and a cyber investment boom at the same time.”
“A lot of, you know, researchers are quitting these firms, saying that they're concerned about, you know, mostly extinction events, but there's also the, you know, the, you know, a lot of that is or or can be manifested through cyber attacks, whether that's humans using AI to perform cyber attacks or AI that kind of goes rogue and loses the plot.”