What Mark Cuban has said about Artificial intelligence

Cuban believes AI dwarfs every previous technology shift he has seen.

“I've been in the tech business a long time. This dwarfs everything else in aggregate”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Mark Cuban: AI Could Bankrupt Us Into A Deep Debt Bubble! (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 25:47

Cuban argues AI is not smart but a statistical next-word predictor that is non-deterministic.

“AI is not smart. It just knows how to use statistics, basically, to predict the next word. It's predictive. It's not deterministic”

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Cuban advises hospitals and researchers to keep discoveries as trade secrets rather than publishing, since published work feeds AI models.

“you're crazy if you publish everything or if you try to patent everything because it's immediately available to every model and you lose control of your intellectual property”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Mark Cuban: AI Could Bankrupt Us Into A Deep Debt Bubble! (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 37:01

Cuban calls Elon Musk the best entrepreneur of their lifetimes but says his AI forecasts reflect that he is a salesman.

“He's the best entrepreneur of our lifetimes for sure. But he's a sales guy”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Mark Cuban: AI Could Bankrupt Us Into A Deep Debt Bubble! (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 49:52