AI engineering glossary · AI ethics law product
What is human oversight?
Human oversight (also called human-in-the-loop oversight): Design and process measures that let people monitor an AI system, understand its outputs and override or stop it when necessary. Effective oversight needs trained reviewers with real authority and enough information, not a rubber stamp.
Human oversight: an example
A loan-approval system flags borderline cases to a credit officer who can see the reasons and overrule the model.
Related terms
More AI ethics law product terms
- Implicit feedback
- Individual fairness
- Interpretability
- k-anonymity
- Label bias
- Lawful basis
- LIME
- Local explanation
Where you learn it
Human oversight is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.