Regulators FAQ

Regulators

How HumanLayer fits into existing frameworks

Regulatory compliance

HumanLayer is designed to be compatible with:

  • human accountability requirements
  • traceability obligations
  • separation of duties principles
  • audit and justification requirements

It does not replace regulatory obligations:

👉 it makes them applicable in the AI era.

AI Act (EU)

HumanLayer is aligned with key principles:

  • effective human oversight
  • transparency
  • traceability
  • clear accountability

It provides:

  • real human oversight (not cosmetic)
  • audit-ready evidence
  • clear decision attribution

No.

HumanLayer:

  • does not make automated decisions
  • does not issue final recommendations
  • does not exercise autonomous judgment

👉 It is a human orchestration infrastructure, not a decision engine.

Supporting regulators

It allows precise answers to:

  • "Who decided?"
  • "On what basis?"
  • "With what information?"
  • "At what time?"

👉 Without post-hoc reconstruction.

Audit

Yes.

HumanLayer can provide:

  • decision exports
  • access logs
  • governance rules
  • routing and escalation rules applied

Terms are defined contractually with clients.

Multiple jurisdictions

HumanLayer:

  • records the jurisdiction you state in each request (jurisdiction field)
  • then only assigns it to a Sentinel who declared that jurisdiction; otherwise the request waits rather than going outside the jurisdiction
  • applies no jurisdiction filter if you don’t state one

👉 Always state the jurisdiction when the legal framework requires it.

In one sentence:
HumanLayer does not create a regulatory gray zone.
It clarifies those that AI makes inevitable.

Questions about compliance?

Contact the team