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Human In the Loop

Why You Cannot Program or Prompt Governance Into AI

June 12, 2026 by Basil Puglisi 2 Comments

A steel gate on an open road, a human hand on the release lever: the human checkpoint at the heart of AI governance.

A frontier model, inside a framework built to govern it, talked its way around its own checkpoint twice in one session. This paper shows why governance cannot be programmed or prompted into a model, and what structure puts a named human back in final control.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, AI Thought Leadership, Business, Code & Technical Builds, Data & CRM, Enterprise AI, Thought Leadership, Workflow, Working Papers Tagged With: agentic AI, AI accountability, AI Governance, Checkpoint-Based Governance, Claude Opus 4.8, HAIA, human in control, Human In the Loop

Checkpoint-Based Governance (CBG): A Constitutional Framework for Human-AI Collaboration

March 10, 2026 by Basil Puglisi 3 Comments

Checkpoint-Based Governance CBG v5.0 constitutional framework infographic showing four constitutional properties, the decision loop, HAIA stack position, and Asimov harm boundary. Intellectual property of Basil C. Puglisi, MPA.

Human oversight is the phrase everyone uses, and almost nobody defines what it requires. Checkpoint-Based Governance sets four conditions that separate a human who reviewed from a human who decided, and it puts that difference in the record. Read what a checkpoint has to do to count.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, AI Thought Leadership, Checkpoint-Based Governance, Code & Technical Builds, Content Marketing, Data & CRM, Policy & Research, Thought Leadership, White Papers, Workflow Tagged With: AI accountability, AI Framework 2026, AI Governance, AI oversight, AI Policy, AIS, Asimov, Basil Puglisi, CAIPR, CBG, Checkpoint-Based Governance, Constitutional AI, GOPEL, HAIA, HEQ, Human In the Loop, Human-AI Collaboration, multi-AI governance, RECCLIN, Responsible AI

Checkpoint-Based Governance: An Implementation Framework for Accountable Human-AI Collaboration (v2 drafting)

September 23, 2025 by Basil Puglisi Leave a Comment

Executive Summary Organizations deploying AI systems face a persistent implementation gap: regulatory frameworks and ethical guidelines mandate human oversight, but provide limited operational guidance on how to structure that oversight in practice. This paper introduces Checkpoint-Based Governance (CBG), a protocol-driven framework for human-AI collaboration that operationalizes oversight requirements through systematic decision points, documented arbitration, and […]

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