Jim Cramer Calls CrowdStrike a ‘MUST BUY' Over CEO's AI Security Post

CNBC host Jim Cramer called CrowdStrike stock a "MUST BUY" on Monday, pointing to a post from company founder and CEO George Kurtz about securing artificial intelligence (AI).

Kurtz had argued that nobody can slow the AI frontier down. Therefore, he said, defenders must block attacks in real time instead of writing policy documents.

Kurtz Says Autonomous Campaigns Now Set the Pace

Kurtz was responding to an essay by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who urged AI labs to pace the frontier. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed, and rival AI leaders backed the call days later.

Amodei asked labs to accept outside evaluators with staff-level access. Anthropic and OpenAI have both committed to that step. Kurtz said CrowdStrike will bring front-line data to those talks.

Kurtz accepted the goal but rejected the timeline. Attacks no longer come from lone hackers, he wrote, but from coordinated AI agents that run entire campaigns at machine speed.

"The unit of threat is no longer the hacker. It's an autonomous campaign. I call it the Agent-state," George Kurtz, said.

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