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Governance & Authority

Human in the Loop Is Not a Governance Strategy

Why human involvement alone does not tell you where accountability actually sits.

Sigrid Seibold4 Sept 20261 min readRelated: Ch. 9 — Governance, Autonomy and Proving the Return

Human in the loop is not the same as human control. A person who approves two hundred AI recommendations a day is in the loop. Whether they are in control is a different question.

Governance needs to specify what the human is expected to check, with what information, at what volume — and what happens when they disagree.

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