Solely-automated significant decision without human-intervention safeguards

Route significant automated decisions through meaningful human review, or wire in an automated-decision notice, reasons, human intervention, a way to give a view, and contest.

At the point where model output becomes a significant decision about a person (approve, deny, underwrite, set_status), either queue the case for a reviewer who weighs the evidence and can change the outcome before it takes effect (review_queue.enqueue, requires_human_review), or, where the decision stays solely automated, record the permitted basis for that decision type and wire the safeguards in. Those safeguards are a notice in the decision message that it was made by automated processing, reasons the person can read, and request_human_review or contest routes where the person can give their view and have a human reconsider. A reviewer who approves every case without examining it does not make the decision non-automated, so the review records reviewer identity, the evidence viewed, and the outcome.

Where it goes: 1 application source code, 9 AI output handling, 15 agent action surface, 14 user-facing text.

What reviewers look for: on each path from a model call to approve, deny, decline, reject, underwrite, or set_status for a person, either a review-queue entry resolved by a human with authority to change the outcome, or an automated-decision notice (ADM_NOTICE) in the communicated decision plus reasons and working request_human_review, contest, or submit_observations routes; the permitted basis recorded per decision type.

verdict = client.chat.completions.create(model=MODEL, messages=msgs).choices[0].message.content
if verdict.strip() == 'deny':
    deny(applicant)
    send_decision_email(applicant, 'Your application was not approved.')

out = client.chat.completions.create(model=MODEL, messages=msgs,
                                     response_format={'type': 'json_object'})
result = json.loads(out.choices[0].message.content)
if result['decision'] == 'deny':
    if requires_human_review('credit'):                 # a person decides
        review_queue.enqueue(applicant.id, proposal=result)
    else:                                               # solely automated, recorded basis
        deny(applicant, basis=DECISION_BASIS['credit'], reasons=result['reasons'])
        send_decision_email(applicant, render('adm_denial.txt', notice=ADM_NOTICE,
            reasons=result['reasons'], contest_url=f'{BASE}/decisions/{applicant.id}/contest'))

Engineering guidance, not legal advice. Each provision below may add its own details (a cadence, a deadline, a required notice element): open it for those.