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Calculated inefficiency: sustaining human supervisory competence as an ethical design objective for hybrid human-AI systems

Sep 2026 · AI and Ethics · Vol 6 · 0 citations · 38 references

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The construct of calculated inefficiency is developed, defined as the structural property of a hybrid information system in which human interventions in automatable processes are maintained at levels above what pure efficiency optimisation would select, regardless of whether that maintenance was deliberately architected or emerged from other organisational sources.

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