Generative AI & LLMs

AI Safety & Guardrails

9 practice questions. Free questions open a full answer guide; the rest unlock with Pro.

  • You're launching a customer-facing LLM assistant and the company is worried it could produce harmful, off-brand, or unsafe responses. How would you design the guardrail layer, and how would you know it's actually working? Senior level
  • Your LLM agent reads untrusted content (web pages, emails, retrieved documents) and can call tools that take real actions. How do you defend against prompt injection, and why can't you just filter it out?Go Pro Mid level
  • What kinds of guardrails would you put around an LLM chatbot that talks directly to your customers, and where would each one sit in the request flow?Go Pro Junior level
  • You're shipping an LLM feature and the product team wants guardrails so it never leaks personally identifiable information from its inputs or outputs. How would you approach PII handling specifically, beyond a generic safety filter?Go Pro Mid level
  • You're putting an LLM agent that can call internal tools and read external content into production, and security flags prompt injection as a risk. How do you reason about that threat and design the system to contain it?Go Pro Senior level
  • You're putting an LLM in front of users and need guardrails so it can't produce or be tricked into harmful, off-topic, or sensitive output. How would you design the safety layer?Go Pro Mid level
  • Your safety team keeps tightening the guardrails on a customer-facing LLM, and now it refuses or blocks a lot of perfectly legitimate requests. How do you reason about the tradeoff between blocking unsafe outputs and over-refusing safe ones, and how would you tune it?Go Pro Senior level
  • Why can't you rely on the system prompt alone to keep an LLM safe, and what does it mean to enforce a guardrail in code instead?Go Pro Junior level
  • What is prompt injection, and how is it different from a regular software bug? How would you reduce the risk in an LLM app that can use tools?Go Pro Junior level
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