Escalation Intelligence
A model for designing the conditions under which a system recognises its own limits and returns control to a human.
Stub
Idea Formed
Human Behaviour
People delegate to systems incrementally and conditionally. When a system acts beyond the boundary of what a person implicitly sanctioned — through unfamiliar stakes, ambiguous context, or irreversible consequence — trust breaks faster than it was built. The value of automation is not in its reach but in its accuracy about its own limits.
Mechanism
Mechanism not yet established.
What makes it distinct
Distinction not yet established.
Where it breaks
Failure conditions not yet established.