Module · Where does AI stop and you start?

The Boundary Layer Assessment

Every AI deployment draws a line between what the machine decides and what a human still decides. Drawn well, per decision class and by stakes, that line is your main safety control; drawn by accident, it is your main risk. This module checks where the line actually sits, how explicit it is, and whether the human side is real.

Question 1 of 5 · The line is explicit

Is the AI-decides versus human-decides line written down for each class of decision?

A line that lives in habit gets redrawn silently with every deployment. Explicit means written per decision class: for pricing, for routing, for approvals, someone has stated where AI acts alone and where a human must.

Question 2 of 5 · Placement matches stakes

Is the line drawn by the stakes and reversibility of each decision, not by convenience?

The right place for the line depends on what happens when the AI is wrong. A cheap, reversible decision can sit on the AI side; an expensive, irreversible one should not, however tempting the automation.

Question 3 of 5 · The boundary is staffed

Are there enough qualified humans to actually hold the human-decides side of the line?

A human-in-the-loop who reviews five hundred AI decisions an hour is a rubber stamp with a job title. The human side of the line is only real if the people on it have the time and skill to genuinely decide.

Question 4 of 5 · Humans really override

When a human sits over an AI decision, do they actually change outcomes, or rubber-stamp them?

Automation bias is real: people defer to the confident machine. If your override rate is effectively zero, the human is decoration, and the line is really drawn on the AI side whatever the diagram says.

Question 5 of 5 · The line moves on evidence

Does the line move deliberately as evidence accumulates, rather than staying frozen or drifting?

A boundary set once and never revisited is either too cautious or too reckless within a year. The system should earn its way across the line on evidence, and lose ground the same way, by decision, not by drift.

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For your riskiest AI-influenced decision, is the human and AI line written down?

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Partly written

Understood, not written

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When a human reviews an AI recommendation, how often do they change it?

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Sometimes

Rarely

Almost never

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Who decides where the AI-decides versus human-decides line sits?

A named owner

A committee

Each team itself

Nobody in particular

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