manual intervention
Hands-on system correction
Manual intervention is human involvement to correct, adjust, or override an automated process.
The phrase appears in technical, medical, and business contexts when systems can't handle situations autonomously: The software flags anomalies that require manual intervention.
It implies that automation is the norm and human action the exception.
- humanHomo sapiens individual
- human errorMistakes by people
- user inputSubmitted text or data
- overrideCancel by authority
- kill switchEmergency shutoff mechanism
hands-on · hands on deck · control · adjustment · operator · tweak · fix · quick fix · bypass · troubleshoot · correction · stopgap · on the fly · workaround · band-aid solution · keyboard · click · physical
manual interventionautomation
Self-operating system design
self-regulation · autopilot · machine learning · artificial intelligence · set-and-forget
manual interventionnon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
laissez-faire · non-interference · standing back · benign neglect · watchful waiting
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