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Guardrails

Guardrails are the automated, technical layer of AI safety controls — input filters, output validators, and topic or content restrictions — that run around a model to catch unsafe or unwanted behaviour before it reaches a user, complementing (not replacing) Human-in-the-Loop review for the highest-stakes decisions.

Primarily affects

The Governance dimension of the Australian Enterprise AI Index.

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