Mark cuban warns social media anti-ai sentiment is funding tech giants

On September 16, 2026, IT Home reported that anti-AI sentiment has been spreading on social media, sparking widespread debate. Mark Cuban, a billionaire investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, warned that human reactions to this sentiment on social platforms could pose a greater threat than AI itself. He argued that platforms like Meta and Google are leveraging public fear of AI to generate revenue, which they then use to fund their own AI initiatives. Cuban highlighted the irony that companies without social media labs possess the most advanced AI, yet they lack the ability to counter social media algorithms or promote positive AI content. Meanwhile, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing down the development of frontier AI, a stance supported by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Cuban emphasized that the emotional responses humans have to AI content on social media carry more risk than the potential actions of AI entities. He predicted that social media algorithms would amplify anti-AI sentiment, creating a scenario where the public's fear of AI is used to fund the very AI systems that could potentially benefit society.