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Guardrails can help ensure safe, fair and transparent AI

Published: 11 December 2025

The genie is out of the bottle. AI is here, and isn’t going away. But that doesn’t mean we can’t build guardrails to prevent it going off the tracks, writes Simon Blanchette in The Conversation.

“Guardrails are the systems, norms and checks hat ensure artificial intelligence is used safely, fairly and transparently,” says Blanchette, a lecturer at 91˿Ƶ Desautels. “They allow innovation to flourish while preventing chaos and harm.” 

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