CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Tuesday that the cybersecurity company can now shut down rogue artificial intelligence agents.
CrowdStrike's new kill switch, announced Tuesday at its Fal.Con Europe conference, allows security teams to terminate misbehaving agents, prevent them from restarting and cut off their network access. It is designed to give humans more power over artificial intelligence models and systems, as concerns about how to control agents grow.
"Everyone is building AI agents, but they never had the off button, and now they do," Kurtz told CNBC's Jim Cramer on "Mad Money." "It's going to be an incredibly important part of making sure that AI agents run and operate safely."
The AI Kill Switch, as CrowdStrike calls it, is part of the company's Falcon Guardian platform, which monitors AI agents operating within an organization. The technology, which is available immediately, is aimed at addressing AI safety concerns surrounding the rapid adoption of AI agents.
In September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development over safety concerns, a position backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Kurtz argued at the time that slowing AI development would not eliminate existing security risks, which he said underscored the need for safeguards as companies deploy autonomous systems.