Human Override
The exercised ability of a human to ignore, alter, reject or reverse a system output or action.
Why it matters
An override capability that has never been used is untested, and an override that cannot be exercised within the time the action takes effect is decorative. Both are common.
Relationships
Typed edges into the rest of the ontology. These are what make the canon traversable rather than merely readable.
| Verb | Target | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
addresses | Oversight | The subject speaks to the object as a question or concern. |
escalatesTo | Agent Identity | The subject hands a decision upward to the object. |
relatedTo | Human-in-the-Loop | An association too weak or too general for a stronger verb. |
escalatedFrom | Authority Envelope | Inverse of escalatesTo. The subject hands a decision upward to the object. |
relatedTo | Oversight | An association too weak or too general for a stronger verb. |
notEquivalentTo | Kill Functionality | The two are routinely conflated and are distinct. |
Record
| Canonical identifier | QIS-TERM-00014 |
| Status | Canonical industry term |
| Adoption | Widely used |
| Domain · Layer | Oversight · Governance |
| Origin | AIEOG Lexicon defines 'Override' as output or input ignored, altered, rejected or reversed. |
| Semantic aliases | None recorded. |
| First published | 2026-08-02 |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-02 · 180-day cycle |
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