Minimum Safety Checklist for Shipping AI Features
WesEklund · x · 2026-07-13
The author outlines a 6-point minimum safety checklist for launching AI features:
- User input must not directly modify system prompts.
- Retrieved documents must be flagged as untrusted context.
- LLM outputs must be validated before executing any tools.
- Destructive actions require user confirmation.
- All prompts and responses must be logged.
- There must be a kill switch to disable the AI feature.
He points out that many AI applications launching today miss at least 3 of these items.
More from Safety
- Sam Altman is headed to Washington to brief Congress on OpenAI’s GPT-6 line — inductionheads · 2026-07-22
- An MCP server signs every AI agent tool call into a verifiable Merkle chain — Funky_Chicken_22 · 2026-07-22
- AI industry astroturfing roundup tracks the sector’s fake-grassroots problem — ShakeelHashim · 2026-07-22
- New paper defines self-state attacks, showing OS defenses leave four agent-memory cases indistinguishable — Justgototheeffinmoon · 2026-07-22
- Substack starts labeling AI-generated or AI-influenced writing — StewartalsopIII · 2026-07-22
- ControlAI CEO says an international ban on superintelligence is needed to avert extinction risk — zetalyrae · 2026-07-22