Job listings show Nvidia hiring for a new AI safety team to address ‘AI threats’

Nvidia is reportedly assembling a dedicated AI safety and security engineering team, as per a series of corporate job listings posted late last month. The hiring initiative signals a broader effort by the chipmaker to address security vulnerabilities and safety risks associated with autonomous AI agents, which are currently seen as one of the biggest threats of technology, and open-weight models before they reach widespread commercial deployment.According to the disclosures (spotted by Business Insider), Nvidia is recruiting an engineer to serve as the “founding technical leader” for the new team, alongside roles for a security research engineer, an evaluation engineer and a senior engineering manager.Focus on autonomous agents and software patchingThe primary responsibility of the newly-formed division is said to be evaluating autonomous AI agents prior to deployment, testing their operational limits and developing AI-powered security software to automatically detect and patch code vulnerabilities.One job description notes that the team’s…