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

230 points · 299 comments · jonbaer

  1. wavewrangler · · focus · HN ↗
    Did they try just properly sandboxing them first? Or are they still learning how to configure a firewall over there?

    The problem isn't even the AI, the problem is the people in charge of the AI. This is a fabricated crisis

    1. Symmetry · · focus · HN ↗
      Stronger sandboxes trade off against how well they can trade the models, though. If you want your models to be looking things up and downloading tools from the internet when they're doing their job you need to provide at least a credible facsimile of the internet for their training environment and you can't fit something like that on a single airgapped server's storage.
      1. TalkingCodeMonk · · focus · HN ↗
        If you genuinely believe there is even a 1% chance that your creation could destroy the planet or civilization, there is no excuse that is not fundamentally deranged and psychotic.

        If you can't build it and test it securely, you should not be building it at all. To do it anyway is criminally psychopathic.

        1. brianwawok · · focus · HN ↗
          Ok so stop all AI in the US? All AI now comes from China and anyplace in Europe that decides to give it a try? How’s the US economy look in 20 years?
          1. TalkingCodeMonk · · focus · HN ↗
            So you believe some false sense of superiority, or extreme paranoia about your perceived enemies, or potential economic success/failure is worth the risk of destroying the planet and civilization?

            Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy of dogmatic extremism to me. At least we created a lot of value for shareholders for a brief moment in time... before committing the greatest crime in the universe... Planetary genocide!

          2. fatbird · · focus · HN ↗
            So having AI in the US requires us all, collectively, taking that 1% chance of the end of humanity? It would be too expensive to properly sandbox the models, we'll just externalize that risk of the end of humanity?

            Truly psychopathic.

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