AI engineering glossary · Evals guardrails AI security
What is groundedness?
Groundedness: The degree to which an answer's statements can be traced back to provided evidence such as retrieved documents or database records. High groundedness means the system is answering from its sources rather than from unsupported memory, and it is often paired with citations so users can verify.
Groundedness: an example
A support bot replies about refund timelines and attaches the exact policy paragraph that each statement came from.
Related terms
More Evals guardrails AI security terms
- Guardrail
- Guardrails AI
- HarmBench
- HELM
- HumanEval
- Improper output handling
- Input guardrail
- Intrinsic hallucination
Where you learn it
Groundedness is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.