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

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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 Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source (2023)

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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. Unverified source (2024)

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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. Unverified 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. Unverified 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. Unverified 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 Unverified source (2025)

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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 Unverified 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 Unverified source (2024)

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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 Unverified source (2025)

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  Geoffrey Hinton

  Godfather of Deep Learning

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  We have no idea whether we can stay in control of entities that are more intelligent than us. There is no guaranteed path to safety. Unverified source (2024)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  The leading AI companies are increasingly focused on building generalist AI agents — systems that can autonomously plan, act, and pursue goals across almost all tasks that humans can perform. Despite how useful these systems might be, unchecked AI ag... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  We need both a way to frequently monitor these emerging risks, and a protocol for responding appropriately when they occur. Autonomous AI systems that escape human control pose a significant threat to society. Unverified source (2023)

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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. Unverified 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. Unverified source (2025)

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft vice chair and president

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  Laws requiring developers to build safety brakes into such systems, and requiring that deployers can use them effectively, would promote accountability by ensuring that these systems remain under human control at all times. Unverified source (2023)

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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 Unverified 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. Unverified source (2023)

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  Avani Desai

  CEO of Schellman, cybersecurity and compliance firm

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  votes Against and says:

  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. Unverified source (2026)

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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 Unverified 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. Unverified source (2024)

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  Marc Andreessen

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

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  The quest to regulate AI is driven by a 'Baptists and Bootleggers' coalition — true believer social reformers who think regulation prevents disaster, and self-interested CEOs who profit from regulatory barriers that protect them from competition. AI ... more Unverified source (2023)

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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 Unverified source (2025)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  Regulators should regulate applications, not technology. Regulating basic technology will put an end to innovation. Making technology developers liable for bad uses of products built from their technology will simply stop technology development. Unverified source (2024)

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