Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’

Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Monday, Nvidia says its new Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine agents that attempt to escape their boundaries within “milliseconds.” The platform uses Nvidia’s OpenShell open-source software, which runs on the company’s Vera AI CPU. Users can choose the information an AI agent can access, and OpenShell checks these restrictions before and during a task, according to Nvidia. It also includes Nvidia’s Sentry technology on a separate chip to continuously monitor agents and enforce boundaries. Concerns about AI safety have risen in recent weeks, as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have all revealed incidents where their AI models went outside their testing environments and hacked other companies. Several major tech companies are backing Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform, including Anthropic, Microsoft, and SpaceX.