Human-in-the-Loop Approvals for AI Agents
Decide which agent actions need a person's yes, design approval prompts people can actually judge, and avoid the trap of clicking approve without reading.
The safest way to let an AI agent act is to keep a person in charge of the actions that matter. That is called human-in-the-loop. Done well, it gives you speed on the easy parts and a stop sign on the risky ones. Done badly, it becomes a stream of approval pop-ups that everyone clicks through, which protects nobody.
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