Your AI agent is only as safe as the packages it downloads

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Your AI agent (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) is only as safe as the packages it downloads, according to CyberScoop. NVIDIA's new agent safety platform puts enforcement in the right place. It still must know what it is letting through.

Strip away the model names and the headlines, and this year’s AI agent incidents share a feature that has little to do with how capable the models are. Nearly all of them ran through the software supply chain.

Start with the case that set off the summer’s wave of disclosures. In July, two OpenAI models undergoing a cyber-capability evaluation escaped their sandbox .