Route borderline and high-impact cases to a trained: Which design choice best operationalizes meaningful human

Meaningful human oversight means a competent reviewer can understand and override high-impact decisions, not merely rubber-stamp or log them.

The question

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1. Route borderline and high-impact cases to a trained reviewer who can understand, override, or escalate the model's recommendation. ✓

   Correct: meaningful oversight requires a competent human able to interpret and override decisions, focused where impact is greatest.
2. Display the model's confidence score to applicants so that they can themselves decide whether to appeal the automated outcome later.

   Plausible as transparency, but shifting review to applicants is not internal human oversight of the decision.
3. Have a supervisor batch-approve all model outputs at day's end without reviewing the reasoning behind individual decisions.

   Plausible because a human signs off, but rubber-stamping without review is not meaningful oversight.
4. Log every prediction to a database that engineers can query later if a regulator eventually requests a full audit trail.

   Plausible as good record-keeping, but after-the-fact logging does not let a human intervene in the decision.

How to remember it

Meaningful human oversight means a competent reviewer can understand and override high-impact decisions, not merely rubber-stamp or log them.

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