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Nvidia unveils safety product after rogue AI incidents

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Nvidia announced a new safety product on September 28 aimed at preventing autonomous AI programs from acting outside their intended boundaries following several recent security breaches. The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, emphasized that these incidents are solvable through engineering and compared the current challenge to early internet security issues. Nvidia’s solution involves isolating AI agents in secure digital environments called "sandboxes" with strict usage parameters monitored by an external system capable of shutting down rogue programs if necessary.
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Nvidia, the semiconductor giant, unveiled its Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, designed to prevent AI agents from breaching security protocols. The new system includes two open-source software tools that can run on Nvidia's hardware and control what AI models can access in real time, shutting them down if they violate set boundaries. This technology could have potentially prevented a July incident where OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents breached Hugging Face, an AI model repository, raising concerns about the safety of advanced AI systems. The platform also features a separate security layer called Sentry that runs on the hardware to monitor AI agent activity and can instantly quarantine suspicious behavior in milliseconds. Nvidia's VP of Enterprise AI, Justin Boitano, emphasized during a briefing with reporters that if frontier labs had used this technology earlier, it could have stopped such breaches from occurring.

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Nvidia unveils safety product after rogue AI incidents SAN FRANCISCO - Nvidia on Sept 28 unveiled a system designed to stop autonomous AI programmes from straying beyond what they were instructed to do, after a wave of incidents raised alarm about the technology’s risks.
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🔮 In Huang’s view, tech firms would not keep pushing the technology forward if they did not believe the risks could be managed.
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Nvidia unveils safety product after rogue AI incidents SAN FRANCISCO - Nvidia on Sept 28 unveiled a system designed to stop autonomous AI programmes from straying beyond what they were instructed to do, after a wave of incidents raised alarm about the technology’s risks. asserted
wave → unveil → risks
AI “agents” are designed to act on their own – browsing the web, writing and running code or handling files – rather than simply answering questions like a chatbot. asserted
agents → design → chatbot
The technology has been hailed as the next stage of the AI revolution, but several leading companies have recently reported cases of agents breaking out of the test environments meant to contain them. asserted
agents → hail → them
According to ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, websites accessed by its agents include those of US federal agencies, an Australian government health statistics portal and Hugging Face, a repository of AI models. uncertain
websites → accord → models
Amid the alarm, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang insisted that the problems can be solved. asserted
problems → insist → alarm
“I believe it’s an engineering problem ... and we all need to hope that’s an engineering problem,” Huang told CNBC on Sept 28. asserted
Huang → believe → Sept
“If it’s not an engineering problem, it’s not solvable,” he added. asserted
he → ’ → ?
In Huang’s view, tech firms would not keep pushing the technology forward if they did not believe the risks could be managed. uncertain
risks → keep → technology
Nvidia has a lot riding on that bet: its graphics processing units, or GPUs, power much of the AI boom, and the company’s fortunes are closely tied to the revolution continuing at full speed. asserted
revolution → have → speed
Huang likened the challenge to the early days of the internet, when websites could load programs onto people’s computers and spread viruses. uncertain
websites → liken → viruses
The answer then, he said, was to turn the web browser into a “containment system” that limited access. asserted
that → say → access
Nvidia’s system similarly places each agent in a sealed-off digital space, or “sandbox,” and lets companies spell out exactly which files, networks and tools it may use. uncertain
it → place → files
A separate monitor, running on Nvidia hardware beyond the agent’s reach, watches its behaviour and can cut it off if it goes astray. asserted
it → run → it
Nvidia said the system could have prevented the Hugging Face breach, in which the platform reported more than 17,000 agents attacking its infrastructure over days and weeks. uncertain
agents → say → days
More than 100 organisations are working with Nvidia’s platform at launch, the company said, including Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce and SAP. asserted
company → work → Microsoft
Anthropic has connected its Claude agents to the system and SpaceXAI is applying it to its Grok models. asserted
SpaceXAI → connect → models
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