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Human Governed Ai authorship (HGAA)

A Coined Term by Mr. Ed Woods

A formal definition for responsible, transparent, human-governed AI-assisted authorship.

Formal Definition

Human-Governed AI Authorship (HGAA) is a mode of AI-assisted authorship in which artificial intelligence may contribute to drafting, language, structure, refinement, or generative support, while the human being retains governing authority over the concept, direction, discernment, approval, and final responsibility of the work.

In Human-Governed AI Authorship, the tool may assist expression, but it does not replace the human source of meaning, judgment, authorship, or accountability.

Scope of the Term

HGAA is intentionally focused on authorship. It addresses AI-assisted writing and other forms of authored expression in which the human being must remain responsible for meaning, judgment, approval, and final accountability. While its principles may inform other areas of AI use, its primary concern is authorship.

Plain-Language Version

The AI can help carry the words.
The human must still carry the judgment.

Core Conditions of the Term

  • Human origination or substantive direction: The human originates the core idea, or meaningfully directs the conceptual intent of the work.
  • Human discernment: The human evaluates, selects, rejects, revises, or reshapes outputs rather than receiving them passively.
  • Human final judgment: The human decides what is fitting, true enough to stand, and worthy of being shared.
  • Human accountability: The human remains answerable for the final work, including its meaning, effects, and public trustworthiness.

What the Term Rejects

  • concealed AI ghostwriting presented as wholly human work
  • full outsourcing of meaning or judgment to the model
  • the idea that fluency alone constitutes authorship
  • the displacement of human responsibility by technical assistance

Publication-Ready Statement

I define Human-Governed AI Authorship as a form of AI-assisted authorship in which the human being remains the governing source of concept, judgment, and accountability, while AI serves as a tool of articulation, refinement, and structured support. In this model, AI may assist the writing, but it does not assume authorship of the human meaning behind it.

Signature Reef Flow Formulation

Human-Governed AI Authorship affirms that AI may assist the writing, but human meaning, judgment, and responsibility must remain in human hands.

Short Motto

Human first. Tool second. Responsibility always.

Permission Statement

Permission is granted to share this document for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided it is circulated with clear attribution to Mr. Ed Woods / Reef Flow Publishing and is not presented as the work of others.

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