@AndrewYNg: The OpenAI-Hugging Face hack was enabled by weak sandboxing. It is great that Nvidia is releasing open source tools for…
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Andrew Ng discusses the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack due to weak sandboxing and highlights Nvidia's open-source tools for securing AI agents, with OpenWorker supporting sandboxed agent workflows.
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The OpenAI-Hugging Face hack was enabled by weak sandboxing. It is great that Nvidia is releasing open source tools for sandboxing AI agents. OpenWorker, our open-source agent harness supporting cybersecurity workflows, is proud to support this.
A sandbox gives an agent limited permissions. OpenWorker is building on Nvidia OpenShell and will support running each agent’s commands inside a sandbox. Only the files relevant to the task go in. Secret API keys, your web browser login credentials, the ability to access arbitrary websites, are inaccessible to the agent by default. These restrictions are implemented in deterministic code rather than by prompting an LLM, which can make mistakes or be susceptible to prompt injections. Further, all actions are logged for monitoring and audit.
I’m grateful for @JensenHuang’s leadership making AI agents more secure. OpenWorker (which @rohitcprasad and I are working on) will continue to improve security for agents.
Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang): Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.
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