Conceptpermission gate
Permission Gate
A mechanism in AI agent workflows that requires human confirmation before an action is executed. It is characterized as ex ante, binary, and instantaneous, and tends to produce rubber-stamp approvals and automation bias, thereby dispersing rather than reducing risk.
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Oct 12
The key difference between accountability and permission gates lies in the temporal dimension: permission gates are ex ante, binary and instantaneous; accountability is ex post, continuous and accumulative.
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