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NVIDIA app update quietly switches on AI agent control by default, game developer warns
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An automatic update to the NVIDIA app turned on a setting that lets AI agents control the app, and left it enabled by default, according to a game developer's post that drew more than 18,000 likes on X.
Agustín Cordes, the designer behind the horror adventures Scratches and Asylum, posted screenshots on Oct 15 showing a new "AI Agents and App Connections" section under the Features tab of the app's settings. The "Allow Agents to control NVIDIA App" toggle reads "Agent access is enabled. Agents can view and configure supported settings," and an advanced panel shows the details of an MCP server. "Besides the obnoxious privacy invasion and lame AI features, it's a high security risk you may not want," Cordes wrote. The post passed 750,000 views.
NVIDIA has not publicly responded. Users who don't want the feature can switch the toggle off on the same screen.
The change comes as NVIDIA pushes AI features across Windows PCs; its RTX Spark laptops went on sale Oct 16.
“PSA: Can confirm that the NVIDIA app is automatically updating and has *enabled by default* a setting which allows AI agents to control the app with very permissive righ…”