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Humans need meaningful stopping power

Human Control.

Approval is a concrete control only if it appears before a protected operation and cannot be bypassed.

EVIDENCE STATUS / LAUNCH

This is a scoped research dossier, not a completed systematic review or an independently tested result. It identifies methods, questions and source trails for future reporting.

01

Approval checkpoints

Show exact action, target, scope and consequences. Record who approved and bind permission to the specific transaction.

02

Abort and recover

Interruptions, rollbacks and revocation should be tested, not merely mentioned. Long-running tasks need durable states and clear abort behavior.

03

Responsibility

A system should identify who owns a decision, what evidence they saw and how they can contest or undo a mistake.

SUGGESTED VERIFICATION METHOD

What would count as evidence?

Test approval-denied, timeout, revoked-credential and recovery scenarios.

STARTING SOURCE TRAIL

Documents to examine

  • OpenAI Agents SDK — Human-in-the-loop
  • NIST AI RMF

These are starting points, not claims that every document has been independently reproduced.

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EDITORIAL / VERSION RECORD

Edition 1.0 · 09 October 2026

Initial research brief published. No earlier revisions or submitted public corrections are claimed.

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