15 questions for your human-in-the-loop screen

Many human-in-the-loop screens turn humans into rubber stamps.

Here are 15 questions to ask about yours. Use them on any screen where a person approves, accepts or signs off on AI output.

They build on Rubber Stamps and on the six questions in Your Approve button is not human oversight.

  1. Does the AI’s first answer become the reviewer’s answer?
  2. Does the reviewer stop looking once the answer seems fine?
  3. Do people trust the AI over what they know?
  4. Is the reviewer staring at one box while the problem sits elsewhere?
  5. Does the reviewer know what’s happening around the single decision?
  6. Was the screen designed around what the reviewer needs to know?
  7. Does the AI sound like it outranks the person?
  8. Does the reviewer know which mode the system is in?
  9. Can the reviewer tell how sure the AI is?
  10. Does the explanation make sense to this reviewer?
  11. Does it look right just because it’s well formatted?
  12. Does the screen invite actions that aren’t safe?
  13. Is it a chore to say no to a bad suggestion?
  14. Can the reviewer see where the AI got its facts?
  15. Are there so many warnings that none of them gets read?

First posted on LinkedIn on October 23, 2026, and archived here.