Human Oversight
Under the EU AI Act: the requirement that people can understand, monitor, override, and stop a high-risk system.
Article 14 requires high-risk systems to be designed so that natural persons can oversee them effectively — including understanding capacity and limits, watching for automation bias, interpreting output, deciding not to use it, and intervening or halting operation. Oversight must be designed into the system, not asserted in a policy.
In practice: A visible stop control and a reviewer who is empowered and trained to use it.
Plain-English summary of Article 14. The binding text is Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
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