AI Magazine October 2026 Issue 52 | Page 31

THE AI INTERVIEW

“ The most interesting machine in the world is the human”

Michael Kagan CTO
NVIDIA what they can access and do. It now forms part of the company’ s wider Open Agent Safety Platform.
“ You specify what is allowed and what is not allowed,” Michael explains,“ and the sandbox becomes the guardrails for the agent. It’ s open, so you are welcome to improve it. We actually have quite a lot of customers using it already.”
AI as critical infrastructure Michael expects AI demand to keep climbing, believing the technology could soon become the foundation of what we now call personal computing.
“ We are at the very beginning of the hockey stick of AI,” he says.“ You can think of an AI model as a computer, because you run applications on top of it, and it’ s also an operating system. You can have an AI model as your personal computer.”
For Michael, AI has already crossed the threshold that electricity once did, becoming critical infrastructure rather than novelty.
“ Technology becomes infrastructure when people stop getting excited about it and start complaining when it doesn’ t work,” he concludes.“ That’ s exactly what is happening now.”
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