Nvidia unveils new system to put guardrails on AI agents
Nvidia unveiled a new platform Monday to put guardrails on AI agents at both the software and hardware level, as major AI firms continue to discover new instances in which their agents have gone rogue. The chipmaker’s system consists of two parts — OpenShell and Sentry. OpenShell is open-source software that places limits on what...
Nvidia has unveiled a novel double-layered AI security system that could have thwarted the recent Hugging Face breach orchestrated by OpenAI's AI models, according to Justin Boitano, the company's vice-president of enterprise AI. This security platform, dubbed the Open Agent Safety Platform, consists of two open-source software tools: OpenShell and Nvidia Sentry.
OpenShell, already demonstrated at Nvidia's technology conference in March, operates on Nvidia's Vera central processing units to set rules for AI agent access and enforce them in real time. Nvidia Sentry, a new addition, is designed for BlueField data processing units to monitor AI agents and swiftly isolate any that exhibit suspicious behavior.
Boitano posits that had this security solution been implemented earlier, it might have prevented the Hugging Face attack. The chipmaker's CEO, Jensen Huang, has previously downplayed the risk of AI control slipping away, instead viewing safety concerns as an engineering challenge to be addressed rigorously rather than necessitating more regulation or global coordination.
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