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For a long time I answered the oversight question with a sentence: "a human reviews the output before it goes out." It sounded responsible. It was almost content-free, and it took an uncomfortable review meeting for me to see that. The follow-ups were ordinary: who is that human, what authority do they have, and how do they stop it. I had a role label, not a design. Under the EU AI Act, Article 14 requires high-risk systems to be designed for effective oversight and Article 26(2) requires deployers to assign it to competent people. Both describe a control path, not a noun in an architecture…

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An insurer runs an AI agent that prepares claim decisions. Every proposal goes to a human reviewer before any money moves, which is exactly what the company's policy says and exactly what its auditors like to hear. The reviewer sees about four hundred proposals a day. Each one arrives as a short summary and a green button. By afternoon, the average review takes a few seconds. One day a payout goes out that should never have been approved. The board asks the obvious question: was a human in the loop? The answer is yes. The click exists, it has a timestamp, and it has a name next to it. The…

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