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Human oversight documentation<\/strong> is the auditable record proving that real, identifiable people reviewed and shaped a model during training, and as recursive self-improvement moves up the regulatory agenda it is shifting from internal good practice toward a likely compliance requirement. What an auditor adds to the picture is provenance. It is no longer enough to assert that humans were in the loop. You have to show which humans, that they were distinct real people rather than sybils or one-shot contractors, that their judgement held up over time, and that every contribution they made is attributable, timestamped and tamper-evident. That is a different and harder thing than having had good intentions about oversight, and most training pipelines are not built to produce it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We closed last week on a question and this week opens by taking it seriously. The regulatory ground is already moving. The EU AI Act<\/a> requires human oversight for high-risk AI systems under Article 14, and a leading safety-focused lab spent recent weeks arguing publicly for caution over systems that might begin to improve themselves without a human in the loop. Put those two together and the live question is no longer whether humans should oversee frontier training. It is whether labs will soon have to evidence that they did, to someone whose job is to disbelieve them until shown otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Is your human-oversight documentation audit-ready?<\/h2>\n

Answer the six questions an auditor would ask about the people who reviewed your model during training. Be honest: the gaps are the point. Each answer reveals the primitive that closes it.<\/p>\n\n

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    Illustrative self-check, not a compliance assessment. Self-contained: no tracking, no storage.<\/p>\n\n