As enterprises increasingly integrate AI and Large Language Models into their digital platforms, implementing robust AI guardrails is crucial for safeguarding users, protecting data, managing costs, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and ethical standards. These guardrails serve as essential controls across policy, technical, and operational layers to prevent harmful or biased outputs, protect sensitive data, manage operational costs, and maintain compliance and stability. They include categories such as content moderation, rate limiting, access control, input sanitization, and observability, each providing specific protections like filtering inappropriate content, controlling token usage, and ensuring only authorized access. Kong Konnect, with its AI Gateway, offers a comprehensive toolkit to deploy these guardrails effectively, enabling organizations to implement appropriate measures at scale, thus ensuring responsible AI integration and operation.