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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Human in the Loop

Published Monday, 10 August 2026 · By Security.io

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks whether an AI agent still needs human approval while Rusty rapidly stamps a growing stack of forms APPROVED and proudly calls himself the human in the loop.

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Rusty turns human oversight of an AI agent into an extremely efficient rubber-stamp process.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Glitch: Does the AI agent still need human approval?
  2. Panel 2 — Rusty: Absolutely.
  3. Panel 3 — Rusty: I am the human in the loop.
  4. Panel 4 — Glitch: You approved all of them.
  5. Panel 4 — Rusty: The loop was very efficient.