Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)

Working knowledgeGovernance, Safety and Ethics

Also called: HITL

Human-in-the-loop is a workflow design in which a person reviews, approves or corrects AI output before it takes effect. It is the standard framing for responsible AI deployment in high-stakes environments. It is not a rejection of automation but a deliberate decision about where human judgement stays in the chain.

In practice

Every review step is a real cost and a real throughput limit, so decide which decisions genuinely need one instead of applying the pattern everywhere. The useful test is what a reversal costs: if a wrong output can be undone cheaply, gating it on a person buys very little.

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