Human-in-the-Loop Approval Stages
AI Governance Framework

Human-in-the-Loop
Approval Stages

A structured oversight protocol ensuring every AI decision passes through the right human checkpoints before execution.

5
Approval Stages
3
Active Reviews
98%
Compliance Rate
2.4h
Avg. Review Time
Pipeline Completion 3 / 5 stages cleared
🤖
Stage 1 — AI Output Generation
The model produces an action, recommendation, or content draft. All outputs are logged with full provenance metadata before any downstream step.
Approved
Automated Logged Versioned
🔍
Stage 2 — Automated Policy Check
Rules engine validates output against safety constraints, content policies, and domain-specific guardrails. Flagged items are routed for human review.
Approved
Policy Engine Risk Score Auto-flagging
👤
Stage 3 — Domain Expert Review
A subject-matter expert evaluates quality, accuracy, and contextual appropriateness. They can approve, edit, reject, or escalate to a senior reviewer.
Pending
SME Required SLA: 4h Editable
🛡️
Stage 4 — Compliance & Ethics Gate
Compliance officer confirms alignment with legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements. High-risk actions require a second sign-off from an ethics committee.
In Review
Legal Ethics Dual Sign-off
🚀
Stage 5 — Executive Release Decision
Final authority reviews the full audit trail and grants deployment or publication approval. All stakeholder sign-offs are recorded immutably on the decision ledger.
Awaiting Upstream
Audit Trail Immutable Log Final Gate
01
Trigger
AI generates an output and emits a structured approval request with payload, context, and risk metadata.
02
Route
The orchestrator routes the request to the correct reviewer queue based on domain, risk tier, and urgency.
03
Decide
Reviewers approve, modify, reject, or escalate using a structured decision UI with mandatory rationale fields.
04
Execute
Only after all required sign-offs does the system release the output — fully traceable at every hop.
⚠️
High-Risk Score (> 0.75)
Automatically escalates to senior reviewer + compliance officer simultaneously.
Escalated
⏱️
SLA Breach (Review > 4h)
Pings reviewer, then auto-escalates to backup approver after an additional 30 minutes.
SLA Alert
🔒
Regulatory Keyword Match
Content matching regulated terms is frozen and routed exclusively to the legal team queue.
Frozen
Human-in-the-Loop Governance · All decisions audited and tamper-evident · AI Oversight Framework v2.4

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *