# Human Oversight

Source: https://customlabs.io/glossary/human-oversight/
Updated: 2026-09-13

Security & governance

# Human Oversight

Human oversight is a checkpoint where a person can meaningfully approve, reject, or intervene.

It only counts if the reviewer sees the evidence behind a proposed action, rather than only the proposal.

Rejecting must be genuinely as easy as approving, or the checkpoint is oversight in name only.

A near-100% approval rate usually means the design failed this test, not that the system is reliably right.

[The AI Governance Layer](https://customlabs.io/governance/)[Pattern: Human checkpoint before irreversible](https://customlabs.io/patterns/human-checkpoint-before-irreversible/)

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