diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/102-unsafe.yml b/changelogs/fragments/102-unsafe.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e42912
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/102-unsafe.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/102)."
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/robot.py b/plugins/inventory/robot.py
index 19a2f1a..409c909 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/robot.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/robot.py
@@ -85,13 +85,13 @@
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable
 from ansible.template import Templar
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
-from ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy import wrap_var as make_unsafe
 
 from ansible_collections.community.hrobot.plugins.module_utils.robot import (
     BASE_URL,
     PluginException,
     plugin_open_url_json,
 )
+from ansible_collections.community.hrobot.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
 
 display = Display()
 
diff --git a/plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py b/plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..151d92f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023, Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import re
+
+from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
+from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping, Set
+from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
+from ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy import (
+    AnsibleUnsafe,
+    wrap_var as _make_unsafe,
+)
+
+_RE_TEMPLATE_CHARS = re.compile('[{}]')
+_RE_TEMPLATE_CHARS_BYTES = re.compile(b'[{}]')
+
+
+def make_unsafe(value):
+    if value is None or isinstance(value, AnsibleUnsafe):
+        return value
+
+    if isinstance(value, Mapping):
+        return dict((make_unsafe(key), make_unsafe(val)) for key, val in value.items())
+    elif isinstance(value, Set):
+        return set(make_unsafe(elt) for elt in value)
+    elif is_sequence(value):
+        return type(value)(make_unsafe(elt) for elt in value)
+    elif isinstance(value, binary_type):
+        if _RE_TEMPLATE_CHARS_BYTES.match(value):
+            value = _make_unsafe(value)
+        return value
+    elif isinstance(value, text_type):
+        if _RE_TEMPLATE_CHARS.match(value):
+            value = _make_unsafe(value)
+        return value
+
+    return value