Human Oversight & Accountability
Maintaining meaningful human control and clearly assigning responsibility for AI-driven decisions, especially in high-impact scenarios.
Ensuring meaningful human control over AI systems and clearly defining responsibility for outcomes and interventions.
AI should support, not replace, human decision-making in critical applications. Oversight mechanisms ensure that humans can understand, intervene, and override decisions when necessary. Clear accountability frameworks must be established to trace actions, address failures, and allocate liability across stakeholders.
“High-risk AI systems shall be designed and developed in such a way that they can be effectively overseen by natural persons during the period in which the AI system is in use.”
— EU AI Act, Article 14
 Real-World Applications
Finance
Escalation Protocols in Fraud Detection
In a high-frequency payment environment, I advised on integrating human-in-the-loop (HITL) safeguards for real-time fraud detection. When the AI flagged high-risk transactions with borderline confidence scores, oversight mechanisms routed cases to compliance teams. This reduced false positives and preserved user trust, aligning with Article 14 of the EU AI Act (human oversight obligations).
Cybersecurity
Oversight in Autonomous Threat Response
For an autonomous cyber defense system, I designed intervention thresholds where critical actions (e.g. IP blacklisting or automated quarantining) required human validation. I also developed explainability layers to support human decision-makers, ensuring accountability remained with security teams, a key principle under AI governance frameworks.
Healthcare
Clinical Accountability in Diagnostic Support
In a clinical AI project supporting oncology decisions, I introduced traceability and override functions that enabled physicians to review, contest, or modify AI recommendations. These safeguards were essential in ensuring that clinical responsibility stayed with the human expert, not the model enhancing safety and legal defensibility.