Jensen Huang's rule for AI agents: start from zero trust and grant minimal permissions
Olivier__OG · x · 2026-10-25
Citing Jensen Huang's Yahoo Finance interview (Oct 21), the author argues autonomous agents should follow zero trust: grant only the minimum permissions, tools and data a task requires. Reading a file doesn't mean deleting it; internet access doesn't mean exfiltrating data. His test: list what an agent can do but doesn't need to do — and remove those permissions first.
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