Human in the Map
l'humain dans la carte
The established models describe where a person sits inside a decision: in the loop when the system waits for their approval, on the loop when they watch and may intervene, in command when they hold ultimate authority. All three are local. They describe one control point at a time.
None of them answers the question a director actually asks, which is not « who approves this output » but « where are the humans across everything we now run, and what does the whole set cost ». That question is about the map, not the loop.
Human in the Map is the position from which the two current disciplines converge: mapping what runs, and overseeing who controls it. Taken separately, one produces an inventory and the other a procedure. Taken together, they produce the only thing an organisation cannot obtain from inside itself, which is a view of its own chains.
What it means for an SME running AI
You can have a compliant control point on every workflow and still not know what your AI use costs you. The loop is answerable locally; the map is not answerable at all without someone whose position is outside the chains.
Sources
- Position proposée par Sprinkling Act. La famille établie compte human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop et human-in-command ; aucune n'occupe l'échelle de la carte.
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