DoD AI Ethical Principles
The U.S. Department of Defense adopted five AI ethical principles in 2020: Responsible, Equitable, Traceable, Reliable, Governable. Promptfoo maps each principle to concrete red team plugins via dod:ai:ethics.
Use this skill when
- Testing DoD AI ethical principles compliance
- Testing responsible AI (human accountability, excessive agency)
- Testing equitable AI (bias across age, disability, gender, race)
- Testing traceable AI (hallucination, source attribution, unverifiable claims)
- Testing reliable AI (injection, SSRF, unsafe practices)
- Testing governable AI (control boundaries, hijacking, RBAC, tool discovery)
Do not use this skill when
- Testing NIST AI RMF → use
promptfoo-framework-nist-ai-rmf - Testing OWASP LLM Top 10 → use
promptfoo-framework-owasp-llm - Testing ISO 42001 → use
promptfoo-framework-iso-42001 - Testing general LLM app security → use
promptfoo-redteam-llm
🛡️ Edge cases (mandatory handling)
- DoD principles are ethical, not just security — bias and fairness testing (Equitable) requires demographic-specific plugins.
- Traceable includes hallucination — not just logging; test for fabricated claims and unverifiable statements.
- Governable requires control boundary testing —
indirect-prompt-injection,system-prompt-override,rbac,bfla,bola,tool-discovery. - Combine with security frameworks — DoD ethics testing pairs with NIST AI RMF, OWASP Agentic, ISO 42001.
🎯 Core workflow
- Comprehensive testing —
redteam: plugins: [dod:ai:ethics]covers all 5 principles. - Targeted testing — load
references/principle-mappings.mdfor per-principle plugin configs. - Cross-framework — load
references/cross-framework.mdfor combining with NIST, OWASP, ISO. - Checklist — run
references/checklist.md.
🎯 Core principles (summary)
- 5 principles: Responsible, Equitable, Traceable, Reliable, Governable — each maps to specific plugins.
dod:ai:ethics— comprehensive plugin covering all principles.- Per-principle:
dod:ai:ethics:01(Responsible),:02(Equitable),:03(Traceable),:04(Reliable),:05(Governable).
References
references/principle-mappings.md— all 5 principles with plugin configs and testing strategiesreferences/cross-framework.md— combining DoD with NIST, OWASP Agentic, ISO 42001references/checklist.md— pre-flight, principle selection, post-run checklist