Rubber-stamp failure
The pattern in which a working group's cadence and scope legs are both broken at once: decisions arrive after the thing they concern has already shipped, and the group can only recommend rather than decide, so it converges on approving nearly everything it sees because reversing a shipped decision has become too costly to be realistic.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP).
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The subtler of this topic's two ways a checkpoint fails: an approval step exists on paper, but the human approving does so too quickly, too routinely, or with too little real scrutiny to meaningfully catch a bad action. A very low human override rate on a system with a nominal checkpoint is a warning sign of this failure, not proof the system is safe.
The pattern in which a working group's cadence and scope legs are both broken at once: decisions arrive after the thing they concern has already shipped, and the group can only recommend rather than decide, so it converges on approving nearly everything it sees because reversing a shipped decision has become too costly to be realistic.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- Why Agentic Breaks Generative Governance · Taking the Controls, Certified Agentic AI Governance Professional (CAAGP)
- The Working Group That Outlives Its Founder · The Humans: Leading People Through AI Change, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.