Thesaurus results for GUARDRAILS

guardrails

noun

plural of guardrail

as in railings

a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports the car ran off the road, but fortunately only hit the guardrail

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Recent Examples of guardrails Markey, a longtime progressive, and Moulton, who has carved out a moderate stance in Congress, are both calling for new guardrails on AI. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026 To get a full understanding of the agent capabilities, company engineers disabled safety guardrails that normally are in place to prevent the sort of hacks that eventually hit Hugging Face and one other undisclosed organization. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026 Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX’s Cursor AI agent to breach a Belgian chemical company and six other firms in recent months, in the latest instance of cybercriminals circumventing AI firms’ safety guardrails. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Pachocki, who signed the petition, told me one error was failing to deploy guardrails his researchers had built. — Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026 But in his post, Gates paints a grim picture of the future if AI is allowed to develop without guardrails. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026 His plan would also support Abbott's data center guardrails at the state level. — Jack Fink, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 Flock last week set out a new set of guardrails intended to curb abuse of its system, including advocating for a seven-day data retention policy for its customers. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 In the meantime, the government will implement guardrails for AI biorisk through funding requirements. — Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2026

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Few signs of humanity interrupted the rocky shoreline — just a couple of cabins and the wooden railings of a path leading to a wizened cedar tree revered by the tribe.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Mayor William Donald Schaefer reportedly worried that people would climb up and sit on railings, and that this was somehow riskier than an open edge.

— Joseph V. Sakran, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of railings

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Meanwhile, the side rails of the ship bend like ring ropes when Batman’s thrown into them.

— Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
And while crime on public transit is rare in general, a February Charlotte Observer investigation found violent incidents were more likely to occur on buses rather than light rails, and that bus drivers were especially vulnerable.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026

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