Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
An approach that places human rights, dignity, autonomy, wellbeing, and meaningful oversight at the center of AI design and use. This concept becomes operational through human override, appeal channels, accessibility, understandable notices, bias controls, and safeguards against over-reliance on automated outputs.
UNESCO's Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2021), adopted by 193 member states, centers human rights and human dignity as foundational principles.
The EU AI Act preamble explicitly cites a human-centric approach as the regulation's foundation, with Article 14 mandating human oversight for high-risk AI systems.
Apple's Health AI features such as fall detection and irregular rhythm notification require user opt-in and route clinical interpretation to humans rather than automated diagnosis.