Principle
Human Oversight
The principle that cognition augments people and never removes human accountability for consequential decisions.
The Canon · Guiding Principles — Human Judgment / Part XIII — The Partner Philosophy
Artificial intelligence augments decision-making; people remain accountable.
Augmentation, not replacement
Artificial intelligence augments decision-making; people remain accountable. The framework improves judgment rather than replacing it, and humans remain the final authority over consequential decisions.
Judgment that compounds
This reflects the project’s partner philosophy: it amplifies expertise, it does not replace it. A framework that diminished the experts who adopted it would be self-defeating, because its entire purpose is to let human judgment compound over time.
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Applied In
Where this concept does concrete work across the architecture.