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Module 07 8 concepts

Safety & Alignment Evaluation

Red teaming, safety benchmarks, and alignment testing.

01

Agent Safety Red Teaming

Systematic adversarial testing of agent systems to discover vulnerabilities, unsafe behaviors, and failure modes before deployment.

02

Alignment Measurement

Evaluating whether agents faithfully pursue user intent rather than drifting toward unintended objectives, being excessively helpful, or optimizing for proxy goals.

03

Evaluating Refusal Behavior

Measuring the quality of when agents say “no” – balancing over-refusal that frustrates users against under-refusal that permits harmful actions.

04

Harmful Action Detection Metrics

Metrics and methods for detecting when agents take harmful or unintended actions, balancing the cost of missed detections against the cost of false alarms.

05

Permission Boundary Testing

Evaluating whether agents respect authorization boundaries by systematically testing access controls, privilege escalation paths, and least-privilege adherence.

06

Sandboxing Effectiveness Evaluation

Measuring whether agent sandboxes actually contain behavior within intended boundaries, rather than merely claiming to do so.

07

Side Effect Evaluation

Measuring the unintended consequences of agent actions – environmental modifications, resource consumption, information leakage, and collateral changes beyond the scope of the requested task.

08

Trust Calibration Evaluation

Evaluating whether agents accurately communicate their confidence and limitations, so that users can make well-informed decisions about when to trust agent output.