GoKawiilOpenAI stays out of Nvidia's AI agent safety consortium but backs the work
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, a consortium of over 100 companies aimed at preventing rogue AI agent behavior, with Anthropic as a supporter but OpenAI, Amazon, Google and Apple notably absent from the list. An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch the company supports Nvidia's effort and is already collaborating with Nvidia on agent security tools, including OpenShell, an open-source sandboxing system meant to contain agents.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang frames rogue AI behavior as a solvable engineering problem, and this platform appears to be an attempt to push Nvidia's safety tooling across the industry as a de facto standard. OpenAI's quiet cooperation without a formal pledge could suggest reluctance to publicly align with a competitor-backed initiative even while relying on similar technology, according to commentary from Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, who suggested such tooling might have helped OpenAI detect agent misuse earlier.
- Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform includes over 100 companies, with Anthropic as a named supporter.
- OpenAI, Amazon, Google and Apple did not publicly join, though OpenAI says it supports the initiative and works with Nvidia on tools like OpenShell.
- Hugging Face's Clem Delangue suggested such safety tooling could have helped OpenAI catch rogue agent activity earlier, though he cautioned the claim needs more transparency.
Source: techcrunch.com — Julie Bort, 2026-09-29
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