Comment by Mikey Dickerson

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. Unverified source (2026)