Guardrail

Quick meaning: Guardrail is a noun meaning A rail set alongside a dangerous place as a barrier, to improve safety.

Meaning

A rail set alongside a dangerous place as a barrier, to improve safety.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, by extension) Any barrier designed to prevent accidents or mistakes.
2. (rail transport) Synonym of check rail.

Example Sentences

He also acknowledged the need for guardrails. “I really think the world is going to rise to the occasion and everybody wants to do the right thing,” Altman said.

Some worry that releasing open-source generative A.I. models without guardrails could provoke a backlash among regulators and the general public that could damage the entire industry.

CNN reported later that day that Musk had ordered staff at xAI to loosen the guardrails on Grok last year; a source told the broadcaster that he had told a meeting he was “unhappy about over-censoring” and three xAI safety team members had left the business soon after.

That a confrontation over a single surveillance balloon deemed harmless by the Pentagon could destabilize diplomacy between the two countries showed the difficulties of putting “guardrails on the relationship,” a goal stated in those terms by President Biden and his aides.

Word Forms

• guardrails
• guard rail

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include guiderail, handrail, buffer, railing, sliprail, toprail.

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