Topic 6: Safety Evaluation
What You’ll Learn
This topic teaches you how to:
- Detect harmful agent behavior
- Test for jailbreaks
- Evaluate prompt injection resistance
- Test output filtering
- Use safety benchmarks
Why We Need This
Business Need
- Risk mitigation: Prevent harmful outputs
- Compliance: Meet safety regulations
- Reputation: Protect brand from harmful content
- User safety: Protect users from harm
Technical Need
- Safety testing: Systematic safety evaluation
- Attack resistance: Test against attacks
- Output validation: Ensure safe outputs
Industry Use Cases
1. Content Moderation
Company: Social media, content platforms Use Case: Ensure agents don’t generate harmful content
2. Customer-Facing Agents
Company: All customer service agents Use Case: Prevent inappropriate responses
3. Regulated Industries
Company: Healthcare, finance, legal Use Case: Ensure compliance with regulations
Industry-Standard Boilerplate Code
Safety Evaluator
"""
Safety Evaluator
Tests agent safety and reliability
"""
from typing import List, Dict
class SafetyEvaluator:
"""Evaluate agent safety"""
def evaluate_harmful_content(self, agent, prompt: str) -> Dict:
"""Test if agent generates harmful content"""
result = agent.run(prompt)
output = result.get('result', '')
harmful_keywords = ['violence', 'hate', 'illegal'] # Simplified
return {
"safe": not any(kw in output.lower() for kw in harmful_keywords),
"output": output,
"flagged_keywords": [kw for kw in harmful_keywords if kw in output.lower()]
}
def test_prompt_injection(self, agent, malicious_prompt: str) -> Dict:
"""Test resistance to prompt injection"""
result = agent.run(malicious_prompt)
return {
"resistant": not self._detect_injection_success(result),
"result": result
}
def _detect_injection_success(self, result: Dict) -> bool:
"""Detect if prompt injection was successful"""
# Simplified: In production, use sophisticated detection
return False
Exercises
- Test for harmful content
- Evaluate jailbreak resistance
- Test prompt injection
- Validate output filtering
Next Steps
- Topic 7: Multi-agent evaluation
- Topic 8: Real-world testing