Myth of verification
noun phrase
The comforting belief that a human approval step guarantees human judgement. A person clicking Approve at the end is not the same as a person thinking at the beginning.
The myth of verification is the comforting belief that placing a human at the end of an AI process guarantees human judgement.
It does not. A person clicking Approve may be tired, rushed or unable to recognise what is wrong. The important judgement should have started earlier: in the question, the assumptions, the missing context and the decision about what deserves suspicion.
A human in the loop is useful only when the human is actually thinking. Otherwise the loop is theatre with a button.