Facilitator kit · 60–75 minutes
Contingent
Who gets used. A truck full of vaccine idles behind a working gate because a certified orchestrator did not sign at 3:58. The same morning, a redacted appendix ends in a body.
Good for: Healthcare ops, compliance, labor organizers, AI governance groups, policy students
How to run it
- Start with the Sumas cold-open (Chapter 1) — then flip to the Act's s. 12 language in the Archive.
- Assign one person to argue Carriere's side early: the signature is ceremony.
- Close on Nadia's gap: what would a real human-in-the-loop look like in your org tomorrow morning?
Discussion questions
- Is a human-in-the-loop requirement real oversight, or a financial instrument that makes the machine financeable?
- Nadia never saw the decision. The audit log still has her world's timestamp. Who is she in Tamsin's two versions of the record?
- Calloway is framed as an attack on AI-mediated care, not a glitch. How does that change what "security" means for automated systems?
- Lei wants the portion of Rob's name that travels. When have you been asked for a signature that was really a product?
- "Displacement event" sands a death into a spreadsheet row. What nouns does your industry use to do the same work?
- Contractors are cheaper until they're leverage. Where is contingency already the business model around you?
- If Northstar is the only signature every government accepts, who should own Northstar — and who does?
- What would you refuse to certify, even if saying no ended the retainer?