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AI safety and review

FlaskTrack AI features are designed to assist authorized users, not replace scientific review, operational judgment, or compliance ownership.

AI can be wrong

AI-generated or AI-selected content may be:

  • incomplete;
  • scientifically incorrect;
  • inconsistent with local SOPs;
  • based on the wrong record;
  • unsuitable for the intended organism or process;
  • incompatible with equipment or inventory;
  • missing safety or compliance requirements.

Review AI output before operational use.

Review generated scientific content

For AI-assisted protocols, workflows, molecular designs, reports, or other scientific content, verify:

  • materials and identities;
  • units and concentrations;
  • timing;
  • temperatures and environmental conditions;
  • equipment requirements;
  • expected outcomes;
  • forms and required measurements;
  • organism or construct identity;
  • hazards;
  • inventory effects;
  • applicable approvals.

Review action plans

For AI action plans, verify:

  • every affected FlaskTrack record;
  • the requested mutation;
  • action order;
  • quantities;
  • dates;
  • dependencies;
  • whether the operation should happen at all.

The assistant can help resolve records, but the approving user owns the decision to execute.

No invented laboratory facts

Do not treat an AI-generated observation, measurement, result, or experimental outcome as a real laboratory record unless it was actually observed or produced by an authoritative source.

Permissions are enforced by FlaskTrack

The AI system does not create a separate permission layer.

The same organization scoping, roles, permissions, validation, and lifecycle controls apply to actions performed through the assistant.

Compliance controls remain authoritative

AI must not be used to work around:

  • approval requirements;
  • required review;
  • electronic signatures;
  • locked or released records;
  • validation controls;
  • compliance restrictions;
  • audit requirements.

If FlaskTrack blocks an action, resolve the underlying requirement rather than trying to phrase the request differently to bypass it.

Provider data handling

When an organization uses a hosted AI provider, prompts and supplied context may be processed under that provider account and its terms.

Only submit information the organization is authorized to process with the configured provider.

See AI integrations for provider configuration and data-handling guidance.

Report unexpected behavior

If the assistant exposes unexpected information, selects an obviously wrong tenant-scoped record, or repeatedly proposes unsafe actions:

  1. do not approve the plan;
  2. preserve relevant request and error details;
  3. notify an administrator;
  4. follow the organization's incident procedure if sensitive information may have been involved.