Foundation Guardrails for the EU AI Act

We are excited to announce DynamoGuard's Foundation Guardrails for Article 5 of the EU AI Act, providing enterprises with pre-built, validated guardrails to facilitate compliance with the regulation's prohibited AI practices. These guardrails include input and output guardrails for manipulation, social scoring, criminal risk assessment, biometric categorization, and emotion recognition – immediate, production-ready controls to protect against the prohibited AI practices.

The Challenge: Immediate Compliance Needs

The EU AI Act represents a watershed moment for AI regulation, with Article 5 specifically targeting AI practices deemed to pose "unacceptable risk." With enforcement beginning in February 2025, enterprises that conduct business in the EU must implement robust controls or risk penalties of up to €35 million or 7% of global revenue.

Implementing comprehensive controls for these high-risk practices requires sophisticated technological solutions that can reliably detect and prevent prohibited AI behaviors while maintaining usability and efficiency standards for AI products. Building these controls from scratch is complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive.

The Solution: Expert-Created Guardrail Models

DynamoGuard's Foundation Guardrails represents the combined expertise of our AI Compliance Strategy and Machine Learning Research teams. Each guardrail undergoes a comprehensive creation process. 

We start with deep policy research, analyzing both regulatory requirements and real customer needs to create guardrails that are effective in practice. Our Machine Learning team then leverages our proprietary synthetic data generation techniques to train lightweight models that perform well across a wide range of scenarios. Every guardrail undergoes comprehensive testing through our DynamoEval robustness tests and manual red teaming to ensure reliable performance. Finally, each model is benchmarked against human-annotated data in real-world scenarios.

We developed these guardrails with a clear focus: delivering robust, practical EU AI Act compliance for enterprises. We cover five critical areas:

• Manipulation or deceptive language (output guardrail)
• Social scoring (input and output guardrails)
• Criminal offense risk assessment (input and output guardrails)
• Biometric inference or categorization (input and output guardrails)
• Emotion recognition (output guardrail)

Simple to Deploy, Easy to Customize

We understand that enterprises need solutions that are both powerful and practical. Our Foundation Guardrails offer two implementation paths:

1. Ready to Deploy: Use our guardrails out-of-the-box. Each guardrail comes pre-trained and thoroughly tested, allowing for rapid deployment.
2. Customizable Foundation: Start with our guardrails and customize them to your enterprise's specific requirements. DynamoGuard makes it easy to refine guardrails. 

Each Foundation Guardrail includes comprehensive documentation and clear validation steps to ensure successful implementation in your environment.

Getting Started

With EU AI Act enforcement approaching, now is the time to implement robust compliance controls. You can start implementing these Foundation Guardrails today through the DynamoGuard platform. 

Ready to protect your AI systems? Request a demo to see our Foundation Guardrails in action and learn how we can bolster your compliance strategy. 

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