Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform with 100 partners to rein in rogue AI agents

Nvidia just assembled the largest coalition in AI safety history, and it did so without waiting for Congress to figure out what an AI agent actually is. The NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, launched on September 28, debuted with over 100 partner organizations committed to building guardrails around AI agents that operate autonomously in the real world. The roster includes Microsoft, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, and JPMorgan Chase, spanning AI labs, infrastructure providers, security firms, robotics companies, and financial services. How the platform actually works The system has two main components working in tandem. The first is NVIDIA OpenShell, an open-source runtime released under the Apache 2.0 license that provides sandboxed execution and kernel-level isolation for AI agents. In practical terms, it builds a walled garden around each agent so that even if one starts behaving erratically, it can’t escape its designated environment and wreak havoc on broader systems. The second component is NVIDIA Sentry, which operates on a fundamentally different layer. Sentry uses BlueField-4 data processing units (DPUs) to create a hardware-isolated telemetry system. The key detail: Sen...