High-impact risk categories before release
Start with unsupported claims, context conflicts, missing caveats, and policy-sensitive recommendations. These are the patterns that most often create visible incidents after launch.
Pay extra attention to finance, compliance, legal, and operational guidance where users are likely to take direct action from the answer.
How risk severity changes review requirements
A partially supported low-impact answer may be reviewable. A similarly weak answer in a high-impact domain is often block-worthy.
Severity should be based on consequence if wrong, not just confidence of the model response.
Release gates that prevent avoidable incidents
Add a pre-release audit step that routes output into allow, review, or block. This creates consistent decisions instead of ad hoc debates.
When teams apply the same gate every time, risky answers are caught earlier and reviewers spend time on the cases that matter most.