Human-in-the-Loop
AI & Emerging Tech
A system where a person reviews or approves what the AI does before it counts.
In practice
Human-in-the-loop design keeps a person at the decisive moments of an automated process (checking a draft, approving an action, correcting a classification) so the machine's speed is combined with human judgement where the cost of error is high. Done well, the human's corrections also teach the system.
Questions
What is Human-in-the-Loop?
Human-in-the-loop is a workflow where the AI proposes and a person decides, with the person's review as a required step rather than an afterthought.
Why do you use Human-in-the-Loop?
It is how you get the benefit of automation without handing over the parts that need accountability. It also produces the feedback that improves the model.
How do you use/apply Human-in-the-Loop?
Identify the decisions that matter, put a person there with the information to judge quickly, make approving and correcting effortless, and feed the corrections back.
When do you use Human-in-the-Loop?
Where errors are costly, rare cases are common, or trust has to be earned before the loop can be loosened.
Who uses Human-in-the-Loop?
Anyone designing AI into a process that touches customers, money or safety.
