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

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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. nicce · 1790612835 · focus · HN ↗
  > 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.
  Productivity gains are still enormous compared to what we used to do before agents. But, I know that people don't want to stop there.
  1. autoexec · 1790647966 · focus · HN ↗
    > Productivity gains are still enormous
    Depends on who you ask I guess
    <a href="https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/01/15/ai-is-everywhere-but-nowhere-in-recent-productivity-data/4845104" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/01/15/ai-is-everyw...
    <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/workslop-can-kill-your-productivity-heres-how-to-turn-ai-into-a-competitive-advantage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zdnet.com/article/workslop-can-kill-your-product...
    <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/executives-ai-productivity-layoffs-study/" rel="nofollow">https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/executives-ai-productivity-la...
    tniemi · 1790674538 · focus · HN ↗
    It's probably just productivity paradox v2. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
    It takes time for decades old ways to change.

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