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Comment by Mikey Dickerson
Founding administrator of the U.S. Digital Service; crisis engineer at Layer Aleph
A "human in the loop" whose sole function is to approve a machine's actions is not a safeguard but a design failure. [...] In high-stakes environments, the illusion of human oversight is worse than no oversight at all. It creates confidence without control. If we spend the next decade hiding unsafe systems behind the fig leaf of the "human in the loop," the consequences will not be theoretical.
AI Verified
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(2026)
2mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Checked all dimensions. Year: 2026 (current; published 26 Mar 2026). Author: Mikey Dickerson, founding administrator of the U.S. Digital Service and crisis engineer at Layer Aleph — correctly attributed as the author of this Defense News / Military Times opinion piece. Vote alignment: statement "Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains" with an "against" vote is correct — Dickerson argues a "human in the loop" whose sole function is to approve a machine's actions "is not a safeguard but a design failure," that "the illusion of human oversight is worse than no oversight at all," and warns against "hiding unsafe systems behind the fig leaf of the 'human in the loop'"; he thus opposes mandating human-in-the-loop as a safeguard. Source: direct fetch of defensenews.com returns HTTP 403 to automated requests, but an independent web search confirmed the verbatim passages on this exact March 2026 article (mirrored at militarytimes.com and quoted in the outlet's own social post), confirming the source contains the quote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 11d ago
replying to Mikey Dickerson