AI & models
Alignment
AI safety · Guardrails
The work of making an AI's behavior match what people actually intend and value — being helpful and honest, and declining requests to do real harm. Guardrails are the practical limits that enforce this in day-to-day use: the boundaries that keep a capable system from being misused or going off the rails.
Why it matters
Part of When AI is wrong → It's why Claude sometimes refuses a request or pushes back — that's the alignment working as designed, a feature that makes the tool trustworthy, not a bug to route around.
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