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Human-AI Decision Handoff Models in Industrial Operations

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Pedro Miguel Lourenço
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abstract

When should an agent escalate to a person? Most deployments answer this with a confidence threshold, which is the wrong instrument — confidence measures the model's certainty, not the cost of being wrong. This essay formalises the conditions, triggers, and interface patterns for reliable human-in-the-loop operation in settings where a bad automated decision has physical consequences, and argues for handoff rules grounded in consequence and reversibility rather than model self-report.

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Human-AI CollaborationIndustry 5.0AI GovernanceOperations

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