
Why "I approve" can become the most dangerous button in enterprise AI
THE SO WHAT
"I approve" as a rubber stamp on autonomous AI decisions collapses governance into a single point of human failure. Redesign workflows so approvals are tied to clear scopes, audit trails, and rollback paths — and assume regulators will eventually ask who clicked what, when.
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