Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media
Google quietly removed its public commitment to keeping 'humans in the loop' from an AI statement.
“The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."”
After 404 Media published a story on Google employees mocking the company's AI, Google's spokesperson asked the outlet to swap in a revised statement that dropped the line affirming the importance of maintaining humans in the loop. The quiet walk-back of a human-oversight commitment is a notable AI-governance signal, though it stems from a single PR edit rather than a formal policy change.