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The measures that let natural persons understand, monitor and, when needed, override or stop a high-risk AI system, required by AI Act Article 14, including awareness of automation bias and a way to halt the system safely 1. Engineered as gates, review tooling and override drills that leave records.

Developed in
ch. 04, Designing human oversight (Article 14)
ch. 23, What a good approval looks like
Chapters
ch. 04, The Stack · ch. 11, AI Defined · ch. 23, AI Agents
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

13 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

  • Automation bias

    The tendency of a person to over-rely on an automated system's output.

  • Algorithmic management

    The use of automated monitoring and decision systems to direct, evaluate or sanction workers.

  • Instructions for use

    The information a provider of a high-risk AI system must give deployers: intended purpose, declared accuracy and robustness, known risks, how to read the…

  • High-risk AI system

    Under the EU AI Act, an AI system that is a safety component of, or itself, a product under Annex I legislation needing third-party conformity assessment, or…

  • AI Act (EU)

    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU's horizontal, risk-tiered law for AI, amended by the Digital Omnibus.

  • AI system

    For governance, the object the AI definition brings into scope.

  • Bias

    A systematic error that favours or disadvantages some people or outcomes.

Sources

  1. [1] Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), consolidated text as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI, in force 27 Jul 2026; definitions in Art. 3, incl. 3(1), 3(3) to 3(14), 3(14b), 3(20), 3(22), 3(23), 3(29) to 3(32), 3(49), 3(55) to 3(57), 3(60), 3(61), 3(63), 3(68); Arts. 4, 5, 6 (incl. 6(3) third subparagraph, profiling), 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22 to 27 (incl. 26(11)), 40, 41, 43, 47, 48, 50, 53 (incl. 53(1)(c)), 55, 57, 60, 72, 73, 86; Annexes I, III, IV). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2026-07-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Human oversight. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/human-oversight. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026humanoversight,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Human oversight}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/human-oversight}
}