The Guardrail

The Guardrail is a daily curated feed of AI safety research that automatically filters, categorizes, and summarizes new papers so you can stay current without manual triage.

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Why The Guardrail?

AI safety research moves fast. With hundreds of new papers published daily across arXiv categories like cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.CL, and stat.ML, staying current is a challenge. The Guardrail solves this with a fully automated pipeline that finds and summarizes the papers that matter.

How it works

  1. Daily paper ingestion from arXiv AI and ML categories at 6:00 AM UTC.
  2. Gemini Flash 3 analyzes titles and abstracts for AI safety relevance.
  3. Relevant papers are categorized into a 10-category AI safety taxonomy.
  4. Each paper receives a concise 1 to 2 sentence summary.
  5. Results are committed and deployed via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages.

Update schedule

The pipeline runs automatically every day at 6:00 AM UTC. New papers typically appear within 24 to 48 hours of arXiv submission, depending on arXiv processing times.

Category taxonomy

  • AI Control: Maintaining human oversight and control over AI systems.
  • RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback and preference learning.
  • I/O Classifiers: Input and output monitoring, filtering, and safety classifiers.
  • Mechanistic Interpretability: Understanding internal model representations and circuits.
  • Position Paper: Opinion pieces, policy proposals, and theoretical frameworks.
  • Alignment Theory: Foundational alignment research, goal specification, value learning.
  • Robustness and Security: Adversarial robustness, jailbreaking, prompt injection defenses.
  • Evaluations and Benchmarks: Safety evaluations, capability assessments, red-teaming.
  • Governance and Policy: Regulation and responsible deployment practices.
  • Agent Safety: Safety considerations for autonomous agents and tool use.

Limitations

  • LLM-based filtering is imperfect, so some relevant papers may be missed.
  • Summaries are AI-generated and may not capture all nuances.
  • Category assignments and relevance scores rely on titles and abstracts only.
  • Processing delays mean papers appear 24 to 48 hours after submission.