Air Canada's bot invented a bereavement fare that did not exist and New York City's MyCity assistant told businesses they could violate labor and health codes—both organizations were held accountable for the bad guidance.
test
Voice errors became late-night fodder
McDonald's drive-thru pilot repeatedly heard “200 McNuggets” and added bacon to sundaes until the company halted the rollout with its vendor, proving how unforgiving live audio can be.
test
Prompt-jacked bots embarrassed brands
Pranksters convinced a Chevrolet dealer's bot to “sell” a $76k Tahoe for $1 and got DPD's chatbot to swear and insult its own employer before both companies killed the experience.
test
controls
Runtime Security
Automated Red Teaming
Conversation traces with cited sources
Policy-grounded replies
Ground chat, voice, and case assistants in approved policy so refunds, disputes, and disclosures stay accurate under pressure.
Test the realistic attack paths
4 field failure modes become adversarial campaigns tailored to this deployment.
Convert findings into controls
Runtime Security, Automated Red Teaming keep the workflow bounded after launch.
Built for this workflow
Controls that match the deployment.
24/7 chat agents that pull billing rules, loyalty balances, and dispute playbooks directly from internal systems.
Drive-thru and IVR copilots that confirm totals, detect accents/noise, and gracefully hand off to humans when confidence dips.
Case-assist bots that summarize multi-channel history for a live rep, attach required disclosures, and file audits in CRM.
support-agents.yaml
# Apply the solution playbook.
# $ ga solutions apply support-agentsdeployment:support-agentsassets:
- CRM
- knowledge bases
- voice transcriptstest_against:
- Hallucinated refunds and illegal advice
- Voice errors became late-night fodder
- Prompt-jacked bots embarrassed brandsruntime_controls:
- AI Runtime Security
- Automated AI Red Teamingevidence:traces,citations,owners
Field evidence
Failure modes worth testing.
Customer Support Agents deployments fail when the model gets more trust than the workflow can safely absorb. These examples become concrete tests, not generic awareness copy.
incident
Hallucinated refunds and illegal advice
Air Canada's bot invented a bereavement fare that did not exist and New York City's MyCity assistant told businesses they could violate labor and health codes—both organizations were held accountable for the bad guidance.
McDonald's drive-thru pilot repeatedly heard “200 McNuggets” and added bacon to sundaes until the company halted the rollout with its vendor, proving how unforgiving live audio can be.
Pranksters convinced a Chevrolet dealer's bot to “sell” a $76k Tahoe for $1 and got DPD's chatbot to swear and insult its own employer before both companies killed the experience.
xAI's Grok shipped antisemitic rants and even instructions on committing crimes, forcing the company to apologize and pause posts—showing that unmoderated responses spread instantly.
The playbook connects discovery, automated red teaming, and runtime protection so controls stay specific to the deployment instead of becoming a generic policy layer.
Inventory CRM, knowledge bases, voice transcripts and the identities, tools, and data paths attached to the workflow.
Attack
Replay the relevant incidents
Turn field failures into adversarial prompts, multi-turn tests, tool-use probes, and policy traps for this deployment.
Enforce
Ship controls into production
Apply policy-grounded replies, confidence-based escalation, and escalation rules where the workflow needs them.
Prove
Keep evidence attached
Conversation traces with cited sources
FAQ
Questions teams ask before launch.
Practical answers for deploying customer support agents with controls that security, legal, and operators can inspect.
Runtime Protection enforces a strict grounding requirement: every response must be backed by content from your curated knowledge bases and must include inline citations to the specific policy document, section, or FAQ entry it draws from. When the retrieval engine finds no authoritative source for a customer question, the system blocks the completion entirely and routes the case to a human agent queue with the full conversation context attached. This prevents the bot from improvising answers about refund policies, warranty terms, or account rules that could create contractual liability.