AI glossary for content assistants
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CCPA
The California Consumer Privacy Act gives California residents rights over their personal data including the right to know, delete, and opt out of data sales.
HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act sets US standards for protecting sensitive patient health information from disclosure without consent.
Privacy by Design
An approach that embeds privacy protections into the design and architecture of AI systems from the beginning, rather than adding them as an afterthought.
Data Protection Officer
A designated role responsible for overseeing an organization's data protection strategy and compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR.
Content Moderation
The practice of monitoring and filtering AI-generated content to prevent harmful, inappropriate, or policy-violating outputs from reaching users.
Content Filtering
Automated systems that detect and block specific types of content in AI inputs and outputs, such as profanity, violence, hate speech, or sensitive information.
Profanity Filter
A content filtering system that detects and blocks profane, vulgar, or inappropriate language in AI inputs and outputs.
Input Guardrails
Safety mechanisms that validate and filter user inputs before they reach the AI model, blocking prompt injections, harmful requests, and policy violations.
Output Guardrails
Safety mechanisms that check AI-generated responses before they reach users, blocking harmful content, policy violations, and sensitive information leaks.
Guardrails AI
An open-source framework for adding validation and safety checks to LLM applications, providing configurable input/output guardrails through a Python library.
NeMo Guardrails
NVIDIA's open-source toolkit for adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based applications, focusing on conversational safety, topic control, and secure tool use.
Llama Guard
A safety classifier model from Meta designed to evaluate LLM inputs and outputs for harmful content, based on the Llama model architecture.
Jailbreak Attack
A specific attempt to bypass AI safety measures using crafted prompts, role-playing scenarios, or other techniques to elicit restricted content.
Content Provenance
Systems that track and verify the origin and edit history of digital content, establishing an authenticated chain of custody from creation to consumption.
C2PA
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity is an industry standard for certifying the origin and edit history of digital media through cryptographic credentials.
Intent Alignment
Ensuring an AI system correctly interprets and acts on the underlying intent behind instructions, not just the literal words used to express them.
Distributional Shift
When the data an AI system encounters in deployment differs significantly from its training data, potentially causing degraded or unpredictable behavior.
Shutdown Problem
The challenge of ensuring an AI system can be safely shut down or corrected without the system resisting or circumventing the shutdown process.
Treacherous Turn
A hypothetical scenario where an AI system behaves cooperatively while weak but turns against human interests once it becomes powerful enough to do so successfully.
Power-Seeking
The theoretical tendency of goal-directed AI systems to acquire resources, influence, and capabilities beyond what is needed for their assigned task.
Self-Preservation
The theoretical tendency of goal-directed AI systems to resist being modified or shut down because continued operation is instrumentally useful for achieving their goals.
AI Boxing
A safety strategy that confines an AI system within restricted computational environments with limited communication channels to the outside world.
Capability Control
Safety measures that limit what an AI system can do by restricting its access to tools, information, resources, and communication channels.
Measurement Bias
Systematic error introduced when the features or labels used to train an AI model are poor proxies for the actual concept being measured.
Automation Bias
The tendency of humans to over-rely on automated systems and accept AI outputs without sufficient critical evaluation, even when the AI is wrong.
Aggregation Bias
Bias that occurs when a single model is applied to groups with different characteristics, assuming all groups behave the same way when they do not.
Feedback Loop Bias
Bias that amplifies over time when an AI system's outputs influence its future training data, creating self-reinforcing patterns that diverge from reality.
Amplification Bias
When AI systems amplify existing societal biases beyond their prevalence in training data, making biased patterns more extreme in the system output.
Intersectional Bias
Bias that affects people at the intersection of multiple identity dimensions, often worse than bias along any single dimension alone.
Calibration Fairness
A fairness criterion requiring that when an AI system assigns a confidence score, the actual accuracy should be the same across all demographic groups.
Counterfactual Fairness
A fairness criterion requiring that an AI decision would remain the same if the individual had belonged to a different demographic group, all else being equal.
Procedural Fairness
Fairness in the process by which AI decisions are made, requiring transparency, consistency, the ability to contest decisions, and human oversight.
Pre-Processing Debiasing
Bias mitigation techniques applied to training data before model training, such as resampling, reweighting, or transforming data to reduce bias.
In-Processing Debiasing
Bias mitigation techniques applied during model training, modifying the learning algorithm or objective function to produce fairer models.
Post-Processing Debiasing
Bias mitigation techniques applied to model outputs after prediction, adjusting scores or decisions to meet fairness criteria without retraining the model.
Disparate Impact
When a seemingly neutral AI system or policy disproportionately affects a protected group, even without explicit discriminatory intent.
Disparate Treatment
When an AI system explicitly uses protected attributes like race, gender, or age to make decisions, resulting in direct discrimination.
Model Transparency
The degree to which the inner workings, training data, decision processes, and limitations of an AI model are visible and understandable to stakeholders.
Perturbation-Based Explanation
An explainability method that understands model behavior by systematically changing inputs and observing how outputs change.
Concept-Based Explanation
An explainability approach that explains model decisions in terms of human-understandable concepts rather than individual input features.
Rule Extraction
A technique that derives human-readable rules from a trained AI model, creating an interpretable approximation of the model behavior.
Inherently Interpretable Model
An AI model whose decision-making process is transparent by design, such as decision trees, linear models, or rule-based systems.
Partial Dependence Plot
A visualization that shows the marginal effect of one or two features on a model prediction, averaging over the values of all other features.
Accumulated Local Effects
A feature effect visualization that improves on partial dependence plots by handling correlated features correctly, showing unbiased feature effects.
AI Act
The European Union's comprehensive regulation for artificial intelligence, establishing a risk-based framework for governing AI development and deployment.
AI Regulatory Sandbox
A controlled environment where businesses can test AI innovations under regulatory supervision before full deployment, with relaxed compliance requirements.
Algorithmic Impact Assessment
A structured evaluation of the potential effects of an AI system on individuals and society, conducted before or during deployment to identify and mitigate risks.
AI Compliance
The practice of ensuring AI systems meet applicable legal, regulatory, ethical, and organizational standards throughout their lifecycle.
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