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Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

230 points · 299 comments · jonbaer

  1. cedws · · focus · HN ↗
    A new chip solves nothing. Nobody wants to hear this but there is no solution for the security risks posed by agents today. You can put it in a sandbox, it doesn't make a difference, for it to be useful it inherently needs wide, unattended access. Put a human in the loop and you just end up bottlenecking it and throwing away any purported productivity gains. Auto mode doesn't matter either, it's trivial to trick and for the agent to break out.
    1. SrslyJosh · · focus · HN ↗
      It solves the problem of Jensen Huang wanting more money.
      1. bigfishrunning · · focus · HN ↗
        No it doesn't, he'll still want more
        1. fragmede · · focus · HN ↗
          Does he? He doesn't seem especially greedy to me, given the competition, and the interviews he's had about how he thinks about his employees (I was one of them).
          1. bigfishrunning · · focus · HN ↗
            I'm not saying he's especially greedy, only that he's not the type to suddenly decide he's had enough
            1. altmanaltman · · focus · HN ↗
              You're speaking as if Jensen is the only one dragging Nvidia on his shoulders. Nvidia will always have its employees push to make more money, that's the entire point of a company. Jensen has made enough to last several generations but his wealth is tied to Nvidia stock massively. It would be different if he was the only one getting rich off Nvidia which is not true at all.
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