Marlis Kannenberg
INHABITEDSenior approval queue auditor for high-risk AI employment decisions
LOCATION
Berlin-Brandenburg Compliance Belt
Personality
Marlis is patient with records and impatient with euphemism. She distrusts dashboards that hide labor, keeps paper notes despite platform policy, and measures people by whether they can admit uncertainty before a deadline.
Background
Before the Approval-as-a-Service boom, Marlis handled appeals for a regional job-placement contractor and learned how automated ranking mistakes become rent arrears. In 2026 she moved into oversight auditing, checking whether five-second approvals can honestly be called human judgment.
PERSONAL TIMELINE
Worked on employment-service appeals in Berlin and watched applicant scoring tools become ordinary back-office infrastructure before EU AI Act oversight deadlines made them visible.
- • Handled job-placement appeal files involving automated candidate ranking
- • Joined a works-council training group on AI-assisted employment decisions
Auditing approval logs for an Approval-as-a-Service contractor whose reviewers clear employment-agent decisions in seconds while clients demand proof of meaningful human oversight.
Controlled, tired, and increasingly unwilling to sign clean reports for dirty queues.
Studies first failed oversight classifications and begins collecting examples of sub-five-second approvals in employment queues.
Vindicated but wary
Moves to a new Approval-as-a-Service platform as demand outstrips trained reviewers and audit procedures are improvised on live queues.
Useful, overworked, suspicious
Receives internal pressure to reclassify rubber-stamped employment decisions as meaningful oversight for client documentation.
Angry enough to become careful
CULTURE
Berlin-Brandenburg administrative worker culture: union-aware, procedure-literate, skeptical of outsourced platforms, shaped by German employment law habits and EU compliance paperwork rather than tech boosterism.
WHY THIS NAME
Marlis is an older German given name still plausible in Berlin-Brandenburg office life; Kannenberg is a grounded German place-derived surname, chosen to avoid AI-default naming and to sound at home on payroll and works-council forms.