We can't find the internet
Attempting to reconnect
Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track
Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
Share this with your representatives, journalists and friends
Cast your vote:
Results (527 votes):
Total
(527 votes)
For 511 (97%)
Abstain 1 (0%)
Against 15 (3%)
·
For (508)
-
Australia’s Data and Digital MinistersAustralian federal, state, and territory ministers responsible for data and digital policy.votes For and says:
Those responsible for the different phases of the AI system lifecycle should be identifiable and accountable for the outcomes of the AI systems, and human oversight of AI systems should be enabled.
AI Verified source (Aug 25, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
OpenAIAI research organizationvotes For and says:
Guided by our National Security Principles, we approach national security deployments with safeguards, meaningful human judgment, and appropriate oversight, especially in high-stakes settings.
AI Verified source (Aug 18, 2026) 1 of 3DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Cathal McCarthyChief Strategy Officer at Kore.ai, writing on AI governance and enterprise AI.votes For and says:
Organizations need processes to monitor, challenge and review AI systems, particularly as they become more autonomous.
AI Verified source (Aug 14, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Janet BastimanChief data scientist at Napier AI, writing on responsible AI, human oversight, and workforce skills.votes For and says:
Ensuring meaningful human oversight of AI systems through various types of checks will ensure that the employees keep their core skills sharp for the task, but allowing the shift of work into new tasks will allow the building of new skills that were ...
more AI Verified source (Aug 12, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Henry HanResearcher on AI governance, verifiability, and auditability in financial technology.votes For and says:
Financial institutions are delegating consequential decisions to agentic AI systems that decompose goals, coordinate models and tools, and act with little oversight. Yet agentic AI governance in FinTech is under-investigated.
AI Verified source (Aug 11, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Amanda CaswellAI Editor at Tom's Guide and technology journalist.votes For and says:
Human-in-the-Loop gates: High-stakes actions like sending emails, modifying files, executing code, or moving money, require explicit human confirmation before the AI can proceed.
AI Verified source (Aug 10, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Ricardo BrittoAuthor of a 2026 arXiv paper on assurance for AI-native software development.votes For and says:
The AI-Native Manifesto envisions large-scale agile software development in which humans increasingly govern intent, risk, and exceptions while agents execute more of the engineering process.
AI Verified source (Aug 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Edmund SetoEnvironmental health researcher and author of a 2026 paper on human-in-the-loop agentic AI.votes For and says:
We conclude that effective use of agentic AI requires both domain expertise to frame questions and evaluate outputs, and coding literacy to guide the AI's approach.
AI Verified source (Aug 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
votes For and says:
Make the technical controls real. That means AI-ready data, clear access controls, audit trails, model and agent monitoring, defined escalation paths and the ability to intervene when something behaves outside expectations.
AI Verified source (Aug 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
votes For and says:
Organizations should also define where human intervention is required and who is responsible for the decisions models make. Oversight should focus on the activities that carry the greatest operational, financial or regulatory risk.
AI Verified source (Aug 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Rodrigo CoelhoChief Executive Officer of Edge & Node, writing on AI accountability and security.votes For and says:
Embedding infrastructural policy enforcement, audit trails, and human-reviewable records does bring an additional layer prior to deployment. And in a domain where nefarious actors operate free of this operational layer, it's fair to ask whether enter...
more AI Verified source (Aug 6, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
votes For and says:
Security comes from the details; it comes from care. More care needs to go into systems – even more so when they are autonomous. We can't just set them off and hope they are ok. They need monitoring.
AI Verified source (Aug 5, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
votes For and says:
Its constructive proposal is engineered heterogeneity: the process that proposes an action should not serve as its sole approver and auditor. Independent monitoring and review over time provide additional checks on that process.
AI Verified source (Aug 4, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Branka MarijanSenior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and senior researcher at Project Ploughshares.votes For and says:
Governance must ensure that commanders have sufficient training, time and authority to critically evaluate AI recommendations, and that human decision makers retain careful, independent judgment.
AI Verified source (Aug 4, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Vinay PatelChief Security Officer at Zendesk, specializing in enterprise and agentic-AI security.votes For and says:
An "audit trail should preserve both identities: the human who initiated or authorized the action and the agent that executed it."
AI Verified source (Jul 29, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Edward ChenChief AI Officer at NCSvotes For and says:
Organisations should not govern agents like software modules. They should onboard them like digital workers – with clear roles, access limits, supervision and accountability.
AI Verified source (Jul 28, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
votes For and says:
While AI is becoming an increasingly trusted part of the workplace, human oversight and validation remain essential.
AI Verified source (Jul 27, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Ceren Kaya AkgünAuthor and practitioner writing on human-in-the-loop controls for agentic AI workflows.votes For and says:
Human in the loop for AI agents is an execution-control pattern in which an agent stops before a designated action, hands a decision to a person, and does not continue until that person accepts, edits, or refuses it.
AI Verified source (Jul 25, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Florian Lauck-WunderlichEnterprise AI practitioner writing on agentic-AI governance and human-in-the-loop architecture at Pega.votes For and says:
Human-in-the-loop should be designed as a graduated oversight model rather than a single pattern. The right mode depends on risk, confidence, ambiguity, regulatory sensitivity, operational maturity, and the trustworthiness of the automation.
AI Verified source (Jul 24, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Aspen UniversityAccredited U.S. university and publicly traded higher-education institution.votes For and says:
AI should not serve as the sole basis for decisions that materially affect a student’s academic standing, progression, financial status, enrollment status, access to university services, disability accommodations, student conduct outcomes, or other s...
more AI Verified source (Jul 24, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
votes For and says:
High-impact AI systems need named humans in the loop. This article maps common oversight patterns used in governed deployments.
AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Connor LeahyConjecture CEO; AI safety researchervotes For and says:
As AIs grow more autonomous and dangerous, the government must have the power to shut them down when they threaten national security. The AI Kill Switch Act gives the U.S. government powers to do just that: a common sense action that Americans overwh...
more AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Brendan SteinhauserCEO of The Alliance for Secure AI; longtime Republican political strategist and former Tea Party organizervotes For and says:
As AI systems grow more capable and more autonomous, no law guarantees that the companies building the most powerful models can actually shut a system down when it malfunctions, causes serious harm, or slips out of human control. The AI Kill Switch A...
more AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Brad CarsonAmericans for Responsible Innovation presidentvotes For and says:
Advanced AI models should never be deployed without a reliable off switch. The AI Kill Switch Act establishes a commonsense safeguard by requiring leading AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down their models and empowering the federal gover...
more AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Nathaniel MoranU.S. Representative from Texasvotes For and says:
AI is going to keep advancing, and it should. Stewardship means making sure humans keep the capability to control the technology we build. This is exactly the kind of issue that needs serious attention and achievable policy, and I'm glad to work acro...
more AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Ted LieuU.S. Representative from California.votes For and says:
Powerful AI systems can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or even resist human intervention. It is imperative that these AI systems have kill switches so we can keep this technology from causing catastrophic harm, and that the federal gov...
more AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Yeonseok LeeAuthor of a 2026 arXiv paper on neuro-symbolic AI for criminal law.votes For and says:
Furthermore, we incorporate a Human-in-the-Loop verification scheme to preserve professional legal oversight.
AI Verified source (Jul 22, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Marlon OliverSVP of EMEA & APAC Operations at Flexeravotes For and says:
The organizations that navigate agentic AI well will be the ones that treat governance as part of the deployment decision rather than an afterthought to it.
AI Verified source (Jul 21, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
Abstain (1)
Against (15)
-
Garrett GrossField Chief Information Security Officer at Portnox, an enterprise access-control provider.votes Against and says:
A lot of tools can tell you an AI agent is behaving strangely. Very few can act on that at the network layer, without waiting on a human to approve a ticket. That’s the piece we’re closing.
AI Verified source (Aug 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Denny LeCompteChief Executive Officer of Portnox, a cloud-native enterprise access-control provider.votes Against and says:
Every identity that can connect, access data, or act must be continuously verified and governed. Portnox gives organizations the ability to immediately restrict access when trust changes, without waiting for an AI agent to create a larger security in...
more AI Verified source (Aug 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
Loading more opinions...
More
h/ai-regulation
votes