LLMography
Canonical

Human–AI decision loop

A recurrent cycle in which humans and AI systems jointly observe, act, verify, and revise.

Formal definition

Human–AI decision loop. A canonical LLMography term. See the formal definition in the article below.

Formal definition

A Human–AI decision loop is a recurrent process in which human intent, model inference, tool action, observation, and verification interact until a stopping condition is reached.

In plain language

Human–AI decision loop is not a dashboard widget. It is a way of naming a part of Human–AI work that otherwise disappears into logs, chat history, or an unexamined final answer.

Why it matters

As systems move from prompts to agents and loops, decisions are produced across many steps. Without this concept, those steps remain difficult to reconstruct, compare, or audit.

Diagram

The signature object of LLMography is a trajectory: human, model, tool, observation, verification, revision, decision. Human–AI decision loop occupies a distinct position on that object.

Related metrics

See the proposed measures for loop autonomy, verification strength, and decision-trace completeness. These are research indicators, not certified scores.

Example

A recommendation is issued after a tool call fails verification and a human requests a narrower claim. Reconstructing that path is an instance of this concept in use.

Citation

Bousmah, M. LLMography concept note: Human–AI decision loop. LLMography research site.