Basil C. Puglisi

Digital Strategy, Content, and AI Since 2009

Human In the Loop

Human-AI Collaboration Needs More Than a Human in the Loop

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Human oversight of automated systems is older than AI, and current AI practice still falls short of it.

This paper traces human oversight and accountability from the cybernetics literature of 1948 to Article 14 of the EU AI Act, then separates Responsible AI from AI Governance. It sets out Checkpoint-Based Governance, where a named human holds binding authority to accept, modify, or reject an AI output and leaves a record, and it proposes the studies that would test it. It closes on the Growth OS, a future of work in which AI amplifies people instead of replacing them.

What AI Transformation Actually Requires

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AI products can be purchased. AI transformation has to be built.

This paper reframes fifteen commonly cited requirements for AI transformation as operational management requirements, from data provenance and purpose to decision traceability and value realization. It shows why automation and observation cannot serve as the sole control on consequential work, and how named human checkpoints close that gap.

Why You Cannot Program or Prompt Governance Into AI

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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 […]