If people are wary of AI, in comes HII. Human Intelligence Integration. The responsible path forward.
Fraud.
If human intelligence was sufficient, institutions would not have built the machine. The machine was built because human judgment was too slow, too unpredictable, too likely to say no. It accelerates extraction and removes friction. When it fails, human intelligence resurfaces. For legal cover.
Selective. Institutions want human intelligence when it legitimises the machine or provides legal cover. Not when it introduces friction or ethics or refusal.
HII is not integration. It is removal with human scaffolding. Human judgment was replaced. Humans were hired to provide camouflage.
Read them together and the game becomes visible. Mythology meets mechanism. The machine is the excuse that lets extraction run at scale.
Institutions call it HII now. “Human-in-the-Loop” made explicit what was happening: humans ratify machine decisions and provide legal cover when they fail. Honest language kills marketing. So institutions re-branded. Humans integrate into the machine’s decision-making process. The machine displaces human judgment.
Start with the bank. The bank owns the lending algorithm, trained on its own historical decisions. Decisions that favoured certain populations and excluded others. The machine scales the bank’s historical bias at velocity. The banker ratifies with a signature, accepting the liability. The bank keeps the machine and the profit.
In hospitals, the diagnostic AI was trained on imaging data extracted from patients who did not consent to become training material for a commercial product. The vendor owns the algorithm. The choice wasn’t the radiologists, scale chose for them. The vendor owns the machine and the subscription fee. The radiologist owns the liability.
In government, policy recommendations come from predictive models trained on surveillance data. The consulting firm owns the model and the contract renewal. The government cannot audit it or modify it. Officials capitalise to scale and call it deliberation. Rejecting the model means admitting you are governing blind. Liability is with the official.
The machine encodes institutional power into code. Humans sign off on it. Extraction at scale: bias executing the institution’s strategy faster than any human could refuse.
The game is rigged from architecture. The professional is trapped: refuse and you are incompetent, override and you are liable, question and you are challenging the institution that owns you. Resistance costs more than compliance.
Speed needs an excuse. Opacity needs legitimacy. The machine and the professional provide both. Extraction accelerates.
Until we name it clearly: this is the fraud. Institutions sell it as responsible governance because the loop ratifies, not refuses. Professionals become the mechanism that legitimises extraction.
The extractors own the machines and the profit. Professionals provide cover.
They re-brand because transparency kills extraction. Corporate Social Responsibility became Corporate Sustainability. Human-in-the-Loop became Human Intelligence Integration.
Intelligence Loop is almost here. The human must disappear.
For extraction never stops.