Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains

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  Frank Bradley

  U.S. Navy Admiral; Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

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  [We] have to be very careful about how we come to [AI's] employment and its inspiration into the delivery of lethality. [...] We, as humans, have to have the confidence that it's going to deliver violence only where we intend it to be delivered. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Pope Leo XIV

  Head of the Catholic Church

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  It is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems. No algorithm can make war morally acceptable. (Magnifica humanitas, §198) AI Verified source (2026) < 1 of 2 >

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  World Economic Forum

  World Economic Forum platform

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  Boards must engineer "legible friction": defined pause points where high-stakes actions require human authorization. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft vice chair and president

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  We have to ensure that AI remains subject to human control. Whether it's a government, the military or any kind of organisation thinking about using AI to automate critical infrastructure, we need to ensure that we have humans in control — that we ca... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  Without proper oversight, fully autonomous weapons cannot be relied upon to exercise the critical judgment that our highly trained, professional troops exhibit every day. Unverified source (2026)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  As their capabilities and degree of agency grow, we need to make sure we can rely on technical and societal guardrails to control them, including the ability to shut them down if needed. Unverified source (2026)

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  Geoffrey Hinton

  Godfather of Deep Learning

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  People say unregulated AI is like the accelerator and regulation is like a brake. But they want a very fast car with no steering wheel. Unverified source (2026) < 1 of 2 >

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  Jakub Pachocki

  Chief Scientist at OpenAI; leads OpenAI's research strategy and major model development efforts

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  I think we are getting close to a point where we'll have models capable of working indefinitely in a coherent way just like people do. Of course, you still want people in charge and setting the goals. But I think we will get to a point where you kind... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Susan Leavy

  Assistant Professor at University College Dublin's School of Information and Communication Studies; senior adviser on the 2026 International AI Safety Report; AI ethics and humanities researcher

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  Along with increased capabilities of AI, there has been a dramatic increase in AI adoption, and we need to safeguard human autonomy very carefully. [...] Humanity losing control of algorithms is unfolding in a much more mundane way, and rather than a... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Mira Murati

  Founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab; former CTO of OpenAI

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  At some point we will have super-intelligent machines. But we think that the best way to actually have many possible futures — good futures — is to keep humans in the loop. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Menna El-Assady

  Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich; founding member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI; visualization & interactive AI researcher

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  We are not just focusing on AI as a mathematical or algorithmic field: we are also looking at ensuring that humans are central to decision-making. [...] We are trying to work out when we need to rely on humans and their expertise, and when things can... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Sundar Pichai

  CEO of Google and Alphabet

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  All of us, including the government, are aligned on humans in the loop, and the technology not being used for mass surveillance in a way that contradicts human rights. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Vitalik Buterin

  Ethereum cofounder; technologist

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  Humans and LLMs fail in distinct ways, and so requiring human + LLM 2-of-2 confirmation to take risky actions (and allowing human override only with much more friction and/or time delay) is much safer than fully relying only on either one. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Bill McDermott

  CEO of ServiceNow

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  That's what an AI agent can do when no one's watching. Governance isn't a feature. It's the whole ball game. Because without it, your whole company can come down. [...] You can't have a probabilistic solution for an enterprise. It has to be determini... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Jade Leung

  Chief Technology Officer of the UK AI Security Institute; Prime Minister's AI Adviser; previously led the Governance team at OpenAI

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  The autonomy of these systems is doubling every couple of months. [...] The areas of research that we need to do to understand how to provide guidance to these systems is falling way behind. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Meredith Whittaker

  Signal President; AI policy advocate

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  [AI agents] basically means [they have] access to data and can act independently based on that data. They need access to your calendar, access to your credit card, access to your Signal, bringing that all back into a shared context window where you h... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Surya Kant

  53rd Chief Justice of India (since November 2025); Supreme Court of India

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  The final stage of the judicial process, pronouncement of judgments, must remain firmly in human hands. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Elissa Slotkin

  U.S. Senator from Michigan; former CIA analyst and Pentagon official; member of the Senate Armed Services Committee

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  My bill ensures a human is involved when deadly autonomous weapons are fired, AI cannot be used to spy on the American people, and that a human is on the switch to launch nuclear weapons. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  We have long believed that AI should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons, and that humans should remain in the loop for high-stakes automated decisions. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Virginia Dignum

  Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University; AI ethics expert

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  The central risk is not that machines will outthink us, but that humans will abdicate responsibility. By framing AI as an autonomous decision-maker, especially in high-stakes domains, we risk normalizing the idea that accountability can be delegated ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Caitlin Kalinowski

  Former head of robotics at OpenAI; previously led Meta's Orion AR glasses and Oculus VR hardware

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  surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Sean McGregor

  Executive Director of the AI Incident Database; Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center; General Chair of IAAI 2026

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  Humans should remain in the loop somewhere, rather than letting AI loose without oversight. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Kirsten Gillibrand

  U.S. Senator from New York; member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees

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  Secretary Hegseth's attack on AI safety procedures contradicts common sense and undermines our national security. [...] Removing guardrails doesn't produce efficiency; it guarantees a future of catastrophic harm. We must have clear AI safety procedur... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Arvind Narayanan

  Princeton computer science professor

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  For automation, reliability is a hard prerequisite for deployment: an agent that succeeds on 90% of tasks but fails unpredictably on the remaining 10% may be a useful assistant yet an unacceptable autonomous system. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Blaise Agüera y Arcas

  VP and Fellow at Google Research; AI researcher and author

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  No single concentration of intelligence, human or artificial, should regulate itself. Power must check power, and in a world of artificial agents, this means building conflict and oversight into the institutional architecture. [...] Humans remain in ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Francesca Rossi

  IBM Fellow and Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance

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  A nominal 'human-in-the-loop' approach is not enough. If humans are overloaded or lack the right information, oversight becomes symbolic. [...] AI safety is no longer mainly a model issue, but rather a system and deployment issue. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  The path we're on right now is this race to replace, where you have a small number of incredibly powerful companies very openly saying that they want to build super intelligence, which, by definition, can replace every human job. [...] Polling sudden... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Julie Sweet

  Chair and CEO of Accenture

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  The future of AI and companies is human in the lead. [...] I think the human in the loop has been a huge disservice because companies are led by humans. You can't trust AI unless you understand AI — if you don't have the leaders understanding it, the... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Yuval Noah Harari

  Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not just another tool. It is an agent. It can learn and change by itself and make decisions by itself. A knife is a tool. You can use a knife to cut salad or to murder someone, but it is your de... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Josephine Teo

  Singapore's Minister for Digital Development and Information; launched the world's first agentic AI governance framework

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  Our new Model Governance Framework for Agentic AI will help organisations manage systems that can act with greater independence, whilst ensuring human oversight. We are the first government worldwide to introduce such guidelines. [...] For high-risk,... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  Science informs, but humans decide. Our goal is to make human control a technical reality. [...] It requires meaningful human oversight in every high-stakes decision — in justice, healthcare, credit. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Mustafa Suleyman

  Microsoft AI CEO; author

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  For AI to deliver its promised benefits, it must be designed in the humanist tradition, with people remaining unequivocally in control, and with human dignity always coming first. We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we ... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Saket Srivastava

  Chief Information Officer at Asana

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  By 2026, boards will ask the same questions about agents that they ask about people: who is allowed to do what, with which data and under whose supervision. AI Verified source (2025)

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  Raghu Malpani

  CTO of UiPath, enterprise automation company

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  The need for stronger oversight is only increasing as organizations deploy more agents and give them access to a wider range of core processes, demanding continuous, embedded visibility and real-time control. AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  DV Lamba

  CTO of OneTrust, trust intelligence platform

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  Governance isn't a checkpoint anymore; it's a circuit breaker built into the pipeline. In 2026, accountability-in-the-loop will be the standard for high-risk AI. AI Verified source (2025)

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  Eoin Hinchy

  CEO and co-founder of Tines, workflow automation platform

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  The next wave of AI innovation will be defined by agents that act before they're asked, but the real differentiator will be how effectively humans stay in the loop. Human judgment remains critical, providing the context, ethics, and nuance that AI ca... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  The risk from the technology itself, as it becomes more autonomous, more agent-based, is what's going to happen over the next few years. We have to make sure we keep control of the systems, that they're aligned with our values, that they're doing wha... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Marc Benioff

  CEO and co-founder of Salesforce

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  Every company can be an agentic enterprise but we have to keep the human in the loop. AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Sapna Chadha

  Google VP for Southeast Asia and South Asia Frontier

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  You wouldn't want to have a system that can do this fully without a human in the loop. AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Kai-Fu Lee

  AI entrepreneur and author

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  The ultimate security concern is autonomous weapons without humans in the loop. If we allow A.I. to pull the trigger, imagine how many triggers there can be and also how smart the targeting can be. AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Brando Benifei

  Italian MEP, AI Act co-rapporteur

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  We finally have the world's first binding law on artificial intelligence, to reduce risks, create opportunities, combat discrimination, and bring transparency. We ensured that human beings and European values are at the very centre of AI's developmen... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Thierry Breton

  EU internal market commissioner

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  We are regulating as little as possible and as much as needed with proportionate measures for AI models. The AI Act ensures that high-risk AI systems must assess and reduce risks, maintain use logs, be transparent and accurate, and ensure human overs... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  The problem of control — how do we maintain power, forever, over entities that will eventually become more powerful than us — is the most important problem facing humanity. AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Marc Andreessen

  General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape

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  The regulatory landscape is fairly scary right now. We were headed towards extreme overregulation — up to and including possibly full outlawing of the technology, which is very spooky. Unverified source (2026)

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  Uri Maoz

  Cognitive and computational neuroscientist; Associate Professor at Chapman University with appointments at UCLA and Caltech

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  The immediate danger is not that machines will act without human oversight; it is that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually "thinking." State-of-the-art AI systems are essentially "black boxes." We know the inputs and outputs, ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Mikey Dickerson

  Founding administrator of the U.S. Digital Service; crisis engineer at Layer Aleph

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  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 c... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Avani Desai

  CEO of Schellman, cybersecurity and compliance firm

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  Humans really can't keep up with high-frequency, high-volume decision-making made by generative AI. Traditional human review models are collapsing as generative and agentic systems move from experimentation into production. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  Objective-driven AI systems will be safe and will remain under our control, because we set their objectives and guardrails and they can't deviate from them. Agentic systems can plan action sequences to accomplish a task, subject to safety guardrails ... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Jinsook Han

  Genpact Chief Strategy, Corporate Development, and Global Agentic AI Officer

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  I don't like the term 'human in the loop.' It makes it sound like, oh, you enter any human in any part of the loop, and it's going to work out. Whereas, do you really need a human in this loop? When the human actually goes in to look at it, what is t... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Reid Hoffman

  LinkedIn co-founder, venture capitalist, author of Superagency

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  You have to do the hard work of thinking about the outcomes that you're trying to steer away from, as opposed to saying just stop until you're perfect. An iterative deployment process that gets AI tools into everyone's hands and then responds to thei... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Stephen Roberts

  Oxford professor and co-founder of Mind Foundry

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  The phrase 'human in the loop' creates the often-illusory impression that humans have ultimate control over the AI system. The AI makes a decision or prediction, and then the human uses this to inform their own decision, with interaction being superf... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Cory Doctorow

  Author and digital rights activist

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  AI's 'human in the loop' is a moral crumple zone, an accountability sink, but not a supervisor. AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Andrew Ng

  Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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  Guardrails are needed. But they should be applied to AI applications, not to general-purpose AI technology. Regulating the technology itself would stifle innovation and hold back the progress that benefits everyone. AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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