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Human in the loop

A flow in which a person confirms, corrects or rejects at defined points before an action takes effect.

Confirmation makes sense where a decision moves money, reaches the outside world, or cannot be undone. Confirming everything else creates fatigue and leads to rubber stamping.

As a by-product it creates the most valuable data such a system has: the corrections. They show where the model is reliable and where it is not.