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.
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