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

230 points · 299 comments · jonbaer

cedws · 1790611744 · 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. catlifeonmars · 1790647130 · focus · HN ↗
  That’s a false dichotomy. You can still get a lot of utility out of a sandboxed agent. This is a classic “perfect is the enemy of the good type of argument”. You may decide that the tradeoffs of not sandboxing are worth it, and that is totally fair, but it’s ridiculous to say that you can’t get utility out of an agent otherwise.

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