Building a review step so a qualified person can examine: Which design choice most directly implements the
Human oversight is implemented by enabling a qualified person to review, override, or halt consequential decisions.
The question
A team is designing an AI system that will make consequential decisions about loan applications and wants to embed ethical design controls. Which design choice most directly implements the principle of human oversight?
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- Building a review step so a qualified person can examine, override, or halt the system's consequential decisions. ✓Human oversight means people can review, override, or stop the system's high-stakes decisions.
- Encrypting the applicant records at rest and in transit so unauthorized parties cannot read sensitive fields.Plausible control, but encryption addresses data security, not human oversight of decisions.
- Caching frequent decision results to reduce latency so that applicants receive their final outcomes considerably faster.Plausible but performance caching improves speed and does not provide human control over outcomes.
- Publishing an accuracy dashboard so leadership can watch aggregate approval rates trend each quarter.Almost right as monitoring, but passive dashboards do not let a person override individual consequential decisions.
The trap
Treating security, performance, or passive dashboards as equivalent to human oversight over decisions. How to remember it
Human oversight is implemented by enabling a qualified person to review, override, or halt consequential decisions.
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