Part IV · Production
Chapter 15
Safety, Guardrails and Human-in-the-Loop
Evaluation tells you what the system does; this chapter is about what it is permitted to do — you cannot control what the model reads, only what its output is allowed to cause.
Deliverable: An output-policy chokepoint with designed degradation, redaction across five surfaces, audit trails and rehearsed incident response.
What's inside
10 topics
- 15.1The Output Policy
- 15.2Input-Side Controls and Their Limits
- 15.3Designed Degradation
- 15.4PII, Retention and Redaction
- 15.5Refusal and Abstention as Product
- 15.6Rate Limiting and Abuse
- 15.7Injection Detection and Response
- 15.8Audit Trails
- 15.9Incident Response for AI Systems
- 15.10Three Safety Architectures Compared
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