Definition
An arrangement in which a model's confidence decides whether an action runs unattended, goes to a person, or is refused. It is sold as oversight that scales: high-confidence cases run, and people see only the uncertain ones.
It matters because it moves both authority and review into a number. The threshold confers the authority, so STD-08 §2.6 holds it as a decision threshold policy. The threshold also chooses the reviewer's queue, so STD-08 §3.6 makes it part of the intervention specification and sends a sample of the confident cases to review too, because a queue fed only with uncertain cases cannot detect a confident error. Without both, the arrangement is human oversight in name only.
Scale: Organizational · Phases: Deployment, Audit · Measurability: Fully measurable · Maturity: Core concept
Adjacent terms
References
- STD-08 Delegation · Standard
- Decision-model gate on refunds · Worked example