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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. overfeed · 1790651546 · focus · HN ↗
  > Nobody wants to hear this but there is no solution for the security risks posed by agents today
  Operator culpability and a damage multiplier for negligence will fix 99% of the risks.
  1. dgellow · 1790666691 · focus · HN ↗
    Not with the current admin, just need to do one more contribution to the next Trump ballroom and you can ignore that whole risk

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