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

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  Jack Reed

  U.S. senator from Rhode Island

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  To begin, we should formalize international norms for military and civilian uses of AI to regulate areas where full human control over the technology is essential. The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act is a practical first step toward e...

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  Vitalik Buterin

  Ethereum cofounder; technologist

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  The hope is that 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 eithe...

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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, not a slogan. And that requires meaningful human oversight in every high-stakes decision — in justice, healthcare, credit.

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  Greg Casar

  U.S. Representative from Texas; Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

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  This is a flashing red siren for anyone who cares about keeping America safe and free. The Trump administration wants to use A.I. to spy on Americans without a warrant and to give A.I. power to make life and death decisions without humans involved. T...

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  Dan Schiappa

  President of Technology and Services, Arctic Wolf; cybersecurity industry veteran

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  AI is great at very directed tasks, it's not quite great at broad deterministic reasoning yet. It can make a recommendation but it's not sure enough to take action. That's where humans come in.

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  All AI systems should be under meaningful human control. This is especially true for those that could be used in the taking of human lives. Moreover, current AI systems are inherently unpredictable and fundamentally brittle, unsuited for very high st...

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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. These systems won’t wait for prompts; they’ll monitor markets, compliance landscapes,...

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  Steve Englander

  United States Lab writer

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  AI produces alerts, humans render judgments. Every automated flag routes to a designated human reviewer with duty to explain accept/override outcomes to the public record. [...] Emergency Powers Invocation: Time‑boxed authority with automatic decay;...

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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.

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  Sushil Baveja

  CHRO, Jindal Stainless

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  AI should augment human decision-making—not replace it. Hiring decisions directly impact people’s lives, careers and aspirations. Because of that, they cannot be treated as purely transactional or automated outcomes. While AI can improve efficiency,...

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft vice chair and president

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  We have to ensure that A.I. remains subject to human control. Whether it’s a government, the military, or any kind of organization, that is thinking about using A.I. to automate, say, critical infrastructure, we need to ensure that we have humans in ...

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  Michelle Mello

  Professor of Law and Health Policy, Stanford University; health systems researcher

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  A major worry is that wrongful denials may be occurring as a result of a lack of meaningful human review of recommendations made by AI.

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  Ola Mahmoud

  Head of Liquid Alternatives, Vontobel Asset Management; CFA Charterholder

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  votes For and says:

  More sophisticated AI requires more human oversight, not less.

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  Carl Benedikt Frey

  Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute; Director of the Future of Work Program at the Oxford Martin School; author of The Technology Trap and How Progress Ends

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  For the last-invention story to hold, people would have to become unnecessary even as partners or supervisors to AIs. [...] We would need a world where practical know-how is fully transferable through digital channels and where responsibility can be ...

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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,...

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  IBM

  Technology company; policy division page

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  In systems that will inform credit decisions, clinical recommendations or public benefits eligibility, it is not. And the answer is not only adding a human to the process. It is ensuring that a human has the domain expertise and the means to interrog...

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  Google DeepMind

  AI research company.

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  Crucially, the planning officer remains in full control as the final decision-maker.

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  Pope Leo XIV

  Head of the Catholic Church

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  We must also keep a watchful eye on the development and application of artificial intelligence in both military and civilian contexts, to ensure that they do not absolve humans of responsibility for their choices and do not exacerbate the tragedy of ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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  Jason Perillo

  Recruiting firm founder

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  Building relationships with candidates is one of the most vital and least automatable parts of hiring. No chatbot can replicate the empathy, intuition, or trust that comes from a genuine human conversation. Candidates want to feel heard and understoo...

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  Jerry McNerney

  California state senator

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  Businesses are increasingly using AI to boost efficiency and productivity in the workplace. But there are currently no safeguards to prevent machines from unjustly or illegally impacting workers’ livelihoods and working conditions,[...] SB 7 does not...

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  Craig Hunter

  Service Development Director, Innovation

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  AI is a powerful tool [...] hiring. It should never make the final decision—only provide the insights to make a better one.

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  Serena Huang

  F100 AI executive and advisor

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  AI should enhance human decision-making rather than replace it. [...] AI should never make final hiring decisions without human oversight. [...] AI should not create barriers [...].

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  McDermott Will & Schulte

  Global law firm

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  AI is a tool, not the decision-maker. [...] it should never be relied on to make final hiring or employment decisions.

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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.

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  Assembly Member Kalra

  CA Assembly member

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  An employer or vendor [...] shall not solely rely on output from an ADS to make a hiring, promotion, termination, or disciplinary decision.

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  UC Berkeley Labor Center

  University of California research center

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  Algorithms should not be used as a substitute for human decision making. The growing complexity of algorithmic systems means that even their developers may not understand how they arrive at conclusions—let alone the employers deploying these systems....

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  Vinod Khosla

  Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

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  Personal view: I admire @AnthropicAI sticking by their principles but disagree with the principle itself. Putin won't fight fair so we should have autonomous AI weapons for sure.

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  Devin M. Mann

  Senior Director for Informatics Innovation at NYU Langone's Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science

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  We already have an AI assistant we built for our home blood pressure monitoring program — that right now still has a human in loop for doing the titrations of the meds. Five years from now, we're not going to have a human doing those titrations.

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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...

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  Orly Lobel

  Law professor

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  In 2023, the United States saw countless proposals to ban AI technologies, [...] hiring, [...] law soon must embrace AI; [...] prohibit human intervention [...]

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