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human-over-the-loop

Human exercises high-level control and governance over AI.

Definition

A human oversight mode in which humans retain ultimate authority and governance over system goals, deployment and boundary conditions, providing strategic control and constraints while the system operates autonomously at the operational level.

ISO/IEC 22989:2022 — Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Artificial intelligence concepts and terminology

Related Terms

Human‑in‑the‑loop

Human oversight modality allowing human intervention in AI decisions....

modes of human involvement (human-in/on/over-the-loop)

Human-in/on/over-the-loop models describing levels of human intervention....

Human-in-the-loop (Human Oversight)

Design ensuring human oversight and intervention....

modes of human involvement

Human-in/on/over-the-loop models varying by degree of intervention....

Human involvement

Degree of human review, approval, or override of AI outputs....

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