Failure Protocols and Bounded Autonomy

Every AI system will, at some point, be uncertain, wrong, slow, or unavailable. What separates a product from a pilot is not that it never fails but that the failure has a designed path. This topic is for product and operations managers who need to specify what the system does when the model is unsure and where a human takes the final decision for actions that matter. The target pattern is simple to state: the AI does the heavy work of drafting a complex decision, and a person makes the final click.…