Essential
ceremony oversight
A human clicks approve every day on a system nobody understands, and the organization calls the click governance. The failure mode of the signature — not its existence.
Ceremony oversight is the failure mode of the signature — not its existence. A human clicks "approve" every day on a system nobody understands, and the organization calls the click governance. The person is not overseeing; they are performing oversight. The ceremony is the problem.
How the term evolves
Essential: The central critique of AISIO's early operations. Rob Coleman inherits a system where approval is a rubber stamp. The political question is whether certification can be made substantive without making it so slow that systems can't operate.