"Human Approved" Hides a Harder Governance Question: What Made It Authoritative?
Portotify · reddit · 2026-10-07
The author argues that proving a human clicked Approve proves little: governance needs to establish eligibility, assignment, authority, independence — and that these still held when the approval became consequential. The hard question isn't whether a human was in the loop, but what made that human's decision authoritative.
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