Guardrails and Safety

4 min
Audience
ages 10–15
Time
20 to 30 min
Module
4/5
Badge to earn
Bumper Builder

Today's mission

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to explain what a guardrail is, name four common kinds of guardrails, and describe what happens when an agent's action hits a guardrail check.

The idea in one picture

Picture a bowling alley on a kids' birthday. The staff raise the bumpers along the lane, so no matter how wobbly a throw is, the ball can't roll into the gutter. The bumpers don't turn anyone into a champion bowler; a bad throw is still a bad throw. But they make the worst outcome, a total gutter ball, impossible. Guardrails for agents work the same way. They don't make the agent perfect or smart. They simply make sure that when it makes a mistake, the mistake can't be catastrophic.

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