High-risk action
In short: A high-risk action is an agent action whose harm would be serious or hard to reverse. Examples are moving money, deleting records, changing access or sending messages outside the company. Governance policies usually route these actions to a named human approver before they are allowed to run.
Which controls use this term?
- GOV-07Human approval for high-risk actions. Route actions above a defined risk threshold to a named human approver, and block them until that person approves.
Which terms are related?
Allow ask deny, Human in the loop, Human oversight, Risk tier, AI Act.
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