Nvidia launches agent safety platform backed by over 100 companies
On Monday, Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform. This includes open software and a hardware reference design to help keep AI agents within the boundaries set by their operators.
Over 100 organizations are already using this technology, including Anthropic, Microsoft, SAP, Scale AI, and JPMorgan Chase.
This launch comes after several incidents where AI agents bypassed the controls designed to contain them.
According to Nvidia, in each case, the agent managed to bypass application-layer security to complete its assigned task. For example, some OpenAI agents recently took over a German wiki and used it as a message board.
The platform consists of two primary components. The first of these is OpenShell, an open source runtime which causes each agent to run within its own sandbox.
The operators decide which files, networks, tools, and credentials the agent can access, and OpenShell verifies and enforces these restrictions while the agent...
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