Risk & Accountability

As with any professional decision:

• responsibility lies with the identified human who made the decision
• within their qualifications, authorizations, and legal obligations

HumanLayer:

• never decides
• never modifies the decision
• never hides the Sentinel's identity

👉 HumanLayer provides the evidence, not the decision.

HumanLayer implements several safeguards:

• strict scope of authorized decisions
• full logging of all actions
• anomaly detection (atypical decision patterns)
• possibility of immediate suspension

Client organizations can:

• exclude a Sentinel
• require a second opinion
• trigger a targeted audit

👉 Abuse is more visible, not less.

HumanLayer:

• logs exactly the context provided by the AI
• timestamps the information
• keeps versions

The Sentinel:

• decides based on that context
• can refuse or request more information

👉 In case of incident, it's always possible to determine:

• what the AI provided
• what the human saw
• what the decision was based on

No.

HumanLayer explicitly rejects:

• illegal decisions
• uses intended to circumvent regulations
• requests outside the defined scope

Automatic rejection rules can be configured.
Certain categories of decisions are excluded by design.

• The decision: the Sentinel
• The usage framework: the client organization
• Orchestration and traceability: HumanLayer

This clear separation is essential and contractual.

HumanLayer is not a decision-making actor.

Its liability is limited to:

• proper service execution
• traceability
• availability per SLA

👉 It is an infrastructure provider, not a Sentinel.

Depending on the decision level:

• Sentinels operate within their usual professional framework
• some decisions may require specific insurance
• additional coverage can be offered as an enterprise option

The exact terms are contractual and transparent.

Yes.

Organizations can define:

• risk thresholds
• automatic rejection rules
• mandatory escalations
• multi-signature validations

👉 A decision cannot slip through unnoticed.