Applications
Use these patterns to turn abstract values into mechanisms, ownership, interfaces, and fail-safe defaults teams can deploy in production.
Each pattern links to standards, diagnostics, examples, and evidence-ready artifacts.
Define halt, slow, and escalate controls with explicit authority and automatic thresholds.
Trigger: High-severity anomalies or uncertain model behavior.
Owners: Product owner, incident commander, and accountable executive.
Controls: Manual pause, traffic throttle, and mandatory senior review.
Fail-safe: Freeze risky actions and route decisions to bounded human review.
Replace checkbox consent with receipts, progressive permissioning, and clear revocation paths.
Trigger: Collection of sensitive data or elevated data-sharing requests.
Owners: Privacy lead, UX owner, and legal reviewer.
Controls: Consent receipts, progressive prompts, and friction at high-stakes moments.
Fail-safe: Disable non-essential processing when valid consent is missing.
Treat harm reports like reliability incidents with SLAs, remediation, and audits.
Trigger: User appeals, harm reports, or high-friction support tickets.
Owners: Support operations lead, trust team, and policy owner.
Controls: Structured intake, triage classification, SLA timers, and repair tracking.
Fail-safe: Escalate unresolved cases automatically and preserve full audit trails.
Constrain high-powered internal copilots with approval gates, logging, and reversibility.
Trigger: Agent actions affecting customers, production systems, or regulated data.
Owners: Platform engineering, security, and delegated approvers.
Controls: Action boundaries, approval workflows, and immutable logs.
Fail-safe: Deny unsafe actions by default and require explicit override authority.