Ensure Safe and Secure AI with AutoAlign and NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails

What is NeMo Guardrails?

NeMo Guardrails, developed by NVIDIA, is a tool designed to enforce conversation flows and the safe and secure operation of large language models (LLMs). These guardrails act as programmable flow that can be used to add guardrails for controlling the output of LLMs for applications such as chatbots.

How Does NeMo Guardrails Work?

NVIDIA's NeMo Guardrails leverages a sophisticated dialog management system to prioritize accuracy, appropriateness, and security in AI applications. It integrates seamlessly with enterprise-ready solutions like Langchain and other third-party applications, ensuring LLMs operate within desired safety parameters. Incorporating NeMo Guardrails into generative AI applications ensures frequent checks and balances that are crucial to the operative integrity of such programming. This system of checks and balances is crucial for maintaining the integrity of generative AI applications across various industries. It also includes some example guardrails and can be used by itself or with other solutions.

Ready to enhance the security and reliability of your AI applications? In this blog post, learn how to get started with NeMo Guardrails today and experience unparalleled protection with the addition of Sidecar.

To learn more about the framework, also look at getting started with NeMo Guardrails on their github repo.

Why Choose AutoAlign's Sidecar with NeMo Guardrails?

AutoAlign’s Sidecar technology enhances the capabilities of NeMo Guardrails by providing dynamic alignment with LLMs, ensuring robust security, safety performance and reliability of the underlying model. Sidecar's integration with NeMo Guardrails offers several key benefits:

• Enhanced Security and Safety: Sidecar dynamically interacts with LLMs to prevent vulnerabilities and data leakage. Out-of-the-box alignment controls can be used, or you can customize them to your requirements.‍
• Fit-for-Purpose Performance and Reliability: Sidecar can increase performance using knowledge bases, fact-checking and alignment. ‍
• Standardized Compliance: Organizations can establish standardized configurations of Sidecar that operationalize their compliance policies, enabling a standardized layer of protections and behaviors across models and applications.‍
• Highly Customized Alignment: Alignment controls can be customized or extended to specific requirements at the organization level or specific to the application, ensuring the application's alignment to security, safety, compliance, and performance requirements.

AutoAlign's Approach

Traditional guardrail approaches like moderation endpoints are difficult to tune and often result in increased refusal rates and decreased utility, while only offering partial safety and security coverage. In addition, these solutions do little to tackle the fundamental performance and reliability problems of generative AI models.

At AutoAlign, we tackle these issues head-on with a comprehensive solution.

AutoAlign's Sidecar technology runs alongside LLMs, providing consistent security by dynamically interacting with models and evolving alongside them. Sidecar works with all major LLMs, including commercial models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude models, as well as open source models like Llama 3.1 and Mistral 7B.

Rather than deploying simple filtering 'guardrails', our 'alignment controls' are designed to mitigate issues and make generative AI reliable:

• Increase Quality of Results: Sidecar uses a flexible knowledge-base approach to ensuring results are factual and aligned.
• Reduce Refusals: Instead of refusing to answer questions when issues arise, alignment controls attempt to mitigate those issues and return a stronger, aligned answer.
• Minimize Harms: Our advanced algorithms detect and correct harms such as biases, ensuring fairness and safety in AI-generated content.‍
• Enhance Security: With highly focused Alignment Controls, Sidecar enhances the security of models like GPT-4, increasing resistance to jailbreak attempts and prompt injection attacks and prevent data leakage.

How AutoAlign Sidecar Enhances NeMo Guardrails

With NeMo Guardrails integration, all of Sidecar's Alignment Controls are available to integrate. Sidecar comes with a diverse library of built-in alignment controls (guardrails) designed to address various concerns across all major LLMs:

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• Harm Detection: Detects content that could cause harm.
• Jailbreak Detection: Prevents attempts to bypass AI constraints.
• Confidential Detection: Ensures sensitive information remains secure.
• Intellectual Property Detection: Protects intellectual property.
• Racial Bias Detection: Mitigates racially biased content.
• Tonal Detection: Analyzes and adjusts the tone of the content.
• Toxicity Detection: Extracts and addresses toxic content.
• PII Protection: Safeguards personally identifiable information.
• Factcheck: Verifies the accuracy of information.‍
• Low Latency: Maintains efficient performance without compromising on security.
• Gender Bias Detection: Identifies and mitigates gender-biased content.

These alignment controls can make it straightforward to create a standard set configuration that can act as a consistent compliance layer across models, even as you upgrade models or switch LLM vendors.

Customizable Guardrails with AutoAlign Sidecar

Sidecar’s wide range of out-of-the-box Alignment Controls are highly customizable. Our console makes these controls easily configurable, so no technical skills are required to work with it. Each alignment control can be turned on or off with a switch and can easily be tailored to your specific use case.

For example, here is a PII redaction guardrail being setup through the console:

Intelligent Monitoring with AutoAlign Sidecar

With Sidecar’s intelligent monitoring for LLMs, we ensure continuous alignment with your business goals. Our technology allows companies to seamlessly operationalize their policies, enabling use cases even in highly regulated environments while maintaining compliance with government regulations. This ensures that your AI systems are not only effective but also secure and compliant.

Getting Started with AutoAlign and NeMo Guardrails

Ready to enhance the security and reliability of your AI applications? Explore the detailed integration of AutoAlign with NeMo Guardrails by visiting our GitHub repository. This comprehensive resource provides in-depth information on the integration and its benefits.

For your API key, contact us at hello@autoalign.ai or fill out our contact form to get a demo and find out more.

See our GitHub for AutoAlign X NeMo Guardrails 

Explore the detailed integration of AutoAlign with NeMo Guardrails by visiting our GitHub repository. This comprehensive resource provides in-depth information on how AutoAlign and NeMo Guardrails work together to enhance your AI security strategy. Learn about the key features, implementation steps, and the significant benefits of this integration to ensure your AI systems are both secure and reliable.

Our guardrail set up and the advanced configuration of some guardrails

Sidecar’s wide range of out-of-the-box Alignment Controls are highly customizable. Our no-code environment makes it easily configurable, so no technical skills are required to work with it. Each alignment control can be turned on or off with a switch and can easily be tailored to your specific use case.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is NeMo Guardrails? A: NeMo Guardrails is a security tool by NVIDIA that ensures the safe operation of large language models (LLMs) by using programmable constraints to monitor and control AI interactions.

Q: How does NeMo Guardrails work? A: NeMo Guardrails utilizes a sophisticated dialog management system to enforce safety measures, integrating with enterprise solutions like Langchain for enhanced security.

Q: What are the benefits of using AutoAlign Sidecar with NeMo Guardrails? A: Sidecar provides dynamic alignment of LLMs, enhancing security, safety, performance, and reliability. This approach can work in concert with NeMo Guardrails programmable constraints.

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