Glossary definition

Grounded AI

Grounded AI is an AI system constrained to generate answers only from a defined, retrieved set of source material rather than from its general training data.

AI & Governance

Why It Matters

In security reviews

Grounding keeps automated security answers tied to your real evidence, lowering the chance of fabricated or off-policy responses that a reviewer would have to catch.

Workflow Context

Where it shows up

Used in questionnaire automation where a model drafts answers from an indexed library of policies, reports, and past responses.

Common Mistakes

What to avoid
  1. Treating grounded ai as a universal term with no workflow context.

    Use this as an editorial checkpoint when the term appears in a buyer review, internal workflow, or vendor evaluation.