We also listed a provision named “Human Review Requirement for High-Stakes Automated Decisions” from our summary of this document. None of its quoted text appears in any capture we hold, so it was withheld (correction, Oct 12, 2026). A link to that entry now leads here. This page is a separate clause record, CA-P-013635, whose quotation is checked against a stored capture of the document.
This analysis describes what OpenAI's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This provision imposes a human-in-the-loop requirement for a broad set of consequential decision domains, which is operationally significant for enterprise and API customers building automated decision-making systems on top of OpenAI services, though the policy does not define what constitutes adequate 'human review.'
Interpretive note: The policy does not define what constitutes adequate 'human review,' creating interpretive uncertainty about the threshold required to satisfy this provision across different use cases and jurisdictions.
Cross-platform context
See how other platforms handle Human Review Requirement for High-Stakes Automated Decisions and similar clauses.
Compare across platforms →"Empower people. People should be able to make decisions about their lives and their communities. So we don't allow our services to be used to manipulate or deceive people, to interfere with their exercise of human rights, to exploit people's vulnerabilities, or to interfere with their ability to get an education or access critical services, including any use for: … automation of high-stakes decisions in sensitive areas without human review critical infrastructure education housing employment financial activities and credit insurance legal medical essential government services product safety components national security migration law enforcementExcerpt from OpenAI's Usage Policies
Get the weekly coverage letter
Companies change their terms without announcing it. We capture governance documents, compare each new version with the last, and publish what changed, with the source text behind it. One email a week on what we found and what we could not reach.
This provision imposes a human-in-the-loop requirement for a broad set of consequential decision domains, which is operationally significant for enterprise and API customers building automated decision-making systems on top of OpenAI services, though the policy does not define what constitutes adequate 'human review.'
No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI.