An arrangement where a person reviews, approves, or can intervene in decisions a system produces, before or shortly after those decisions take effect.

Offered as the closing reassurance in every automation proposal, always in the abstract, and never with the ratio attached of how many outputs one reviewer is expected to cover per hour.

• Ratio Unstated: Oversight of ten decisions a day and oversight of ten thousand are described in identical words.
• Liability Placement: The reviewer's real function is often to be the name attached when something goes wrong.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like glancing at the dishwasher as you walk past and calling the glance "human oversight of the kitchen."

Undercover Boss (2010s) where an executive spends part of one shift on the floor, and the visit is presented as meaningful supervision of an operation that runs thousands of hours without them.

A person reviewing or able to stop what the system decides.

“All automated determinations remain subject to human oversight at every stage.”

“One reviewer checks every rejected claim before it goes out, roughly forty a day.”