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Human in the Loop Is Not Human in Control

Human in the Loop Is Not Human in Control: Control Erosion, Governance Erosion, and the Governability of Agentic AI Systems. Marc Roland Joseph Meseray, Meseray Institute, Oslo, 2026.

Purpose

The book consolidates public Meseray research on why human-in-the-loop arrangements can preserve formal presence while effective control and institutional governability weaken.

Major concepts

The public concepts include Control Erosion, Governance Erosion, Effective Human Control, symbolic supervision, authority drift, independent validation, stopability, revocability and evidence trajectory.

Publication and IP status

The approved public commercial edition is planned as a 378-page English long-form edition. It is not currently offered for sale on this site. Protected assessment methodology remains private even where public ideas point toward an assessment architecture.

Individual digital edition

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Recommended citation: Meseray, Marc Roland Joseph. Human in the Loop Is Not Human in Control. Meseray Institute, Oslo, 2026. The former LinkedIn Volume 1 and Volume 2 links have been withdrawn and are intentionally not published here.

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