human oversight
Manual quality control
Human oversight is the supervision of automated systems, artificial intelligence, or delegated processes by people who can monitor, correct, or override them.
The term appears frequently in discussions of AI safety and algorithmic decision-making, where the concern is ensuring humans remain in control of consequential choices: The system includes human oversight at every stage.
In broader use, it applies to any arrangement where people check work done by machines or subordinates.
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- watchdogGuard or monitor
- checks and balancesConstitutional power-limiting framework
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- AI ethicsalgorithmic bias, robot rights, AI rights, moral agency, explainability
human oversightfaceless bureaucracy
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