Human-Governed Automation Loops for AI at Planet Scale | Suganya Nagarajan | Conf42 SRE 2026

Presenters Suganya Nagarajan Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🚀 Beyond Blind Automation: The Power of Human-Governed AI Loops In the high-stakes world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we face a recurring dilemma: as systems scale, manual interventions become a bottleneck, yet blind automation remains a dangerous liability. I am Suganya Nagarajan, an engineering manager with a decade of experience in large-scale distributed systems. Today, I want to share a framework to bridge this gap: Human-Governed Automation Loops (HAL). This approach ensures that our AI systems remain reliable, accountable, and safe, even as they operate at breakneck speeds. ...

March 19, 2026 · 4 min