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AI glossary

Human oversight

Also called human in the loop, oversight, meaningful human review.

Human oversight is a person checking an AI system’s work in a way that could actually catch a problem, and stop or change the result, rather than clicking “Continue”. It needs the time, the knowledge and the authority to say no. The EU AI Act requires it for high-risk AI systems, in Article 14.

Think of it as

A supervisor who reads the report, not just signs it.

Why it matters at work

An approval prompt clicked forty times a day stops being a check. Module 9 shows how to put the check before the action and make an approval worth its name.

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