Swiss Cheese Model for AI Safety: A Taxonomy and Reference Architecture for Multi-Layered Guardrails of Foundation Model Based Agents

Understand

Foundation Model (FM)-based agents are revolutionizing application development across various domains.

• However, their rapidly growing capabilities and autonomy have raised significant concerns about AI safety.
• Researchers are exploring better ways to design guardrails to ensure that the runtime behavior of FM-based agents remains within specific boundaries.
• Nevertheless, designing effective runtime guardrails is challenging due to the agents' autonomous and non-deterministic behavior.