# Safety and Control Must Be Built Into the Computing Architecture by Jensen Huang
> “AI capability and safety must advance together. As enterprises prepare to deploy billions of AI agents, safety and control must be built into the computing architecture.”
> **— Jensen Huang**, *NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture announcement, October 21, 2026*
## Sources and Context
- **Primary source:** [NVIDIA Launches OpenShell Reference Architecture for Safe AI Agents](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openshell-reference-architecture) — official NVIDIA Newsroom release containing the complete statement.
- **Verification:** The Reminder uses Huang's directly verified NVIDIA wording; it replaces the article's previously cited secondary formulation.
- **Editorial treatment:** The first two contiguous sentences are reproduced exactly; the longer official quotation continues with OpenShell's defined boundaries and the Rubin, Vera, and BlueField architecture.
- **Context:** Huang made the statement in NVIDIA's October 21, 2026 announcement of the OpenShell Reference Architecture, describing safety and control as properties of the computing architecture used to deploy agents.
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“AI capability and safety must advance together. As enterprises prepare to deploy billions of AI agents, safety and control must be built into the computing architecture.”
— Jensen Huang, 2026
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