In the AI age, there's a new frontier in workplace diversity — human quotas (www.businessinsider.com)

Gartner analysts at an HR symposium in London warned that governments—not companies—may soon mandate "certified human quotas" to guarantee a minimum level of human involvement in work: they predict that by 2032 at least 30% of the world’s top economies will introduce such rules. The proposal is framed as a response to AI’s growing role in production, decision-making, and creative tasks, and would force organizations to demonstrate how they redeploy staff, prove human oversight, and document where humans contributed versus where AI did. Gartner’s Ania Krasniewska pointed to recent legal trends (Australia’s High Court allowing scrutiny of redeployment before redundancy) and the political appetite for disclosure as drivers of this shift. For the AI/ML community, this signals major operational, governance, and technical implications: firms will need auditable workflows that tag human inputs, implement “human-in-the-loop” checkpoints for high-risk systems (echoed by the EU AI Act’s “meaningful” oversight requirement), and clarify accountability when AI outputs cause harm. Practical measures likely include provenance metadata, citations or watermarks for AI-generated content, and certification processes to verify human involvement. High-profile failures—like Deloitte’s AI-assisted report errors—underscore the risks and the regulatory pressure to make human roles and responsibility traceable and enforceable.