AI Glossary

Red teaming

Also called red team

Deliberately attacking an AI system the way an adversary would, to find harmful outputs, security holes or failures, before or after it is released.

See also

  • AI safety

    The work of keeping AI systems from causing harm, whether through malicious use, malfunctions or wider risks to society.

  • Jailbreak

    A prompt crafted to get a model to ignore its safety training and produce something it was trained to refuse.

  • Prompt injection

    An attack in which input makes a model behave in ways its builders did not intend, either typed directly or hidden in content the model reads, such as a web page, an email or a document.

  • Model card

    A document published with a model that describes what it is for, how it was evaluated, and its known limits.

Source: Ganguli et al., Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms (2022) (opens in a new tab)

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Orbyt Labs, Red teaming (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/red-teaming

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Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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