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Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents: Balancing Autonomy and Business Safety (2026)

How to design AI agents that pause for human approval before executing sensitive financial, legal, or database operations. LangGraph interrupts and webhook approvals.

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Why Full Autonomy is Risky in Enterprise Workflows

Autonomous agents can make hallucinations costly if allowed to trigger payments or delete records without checks. Human-in-the-loop patterns pause agent graphs at high-impact nodes until a human operator confirms.

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