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COMPEL Glossary / augment-assist-automate-arbitrate

Augment / assist / automate / arbitrate

Named collaboration patterns where AI respectively enhances human work (augment), supports human decisions (assist), executes bounded work under oversight (automate), or adjudicates between conflicting human inputs (arbitrate).

What this means in practice

Each pattern has distinct oversight, literacy, and governance requirements; selection is the central act of human-AI role redesign.

Synonyms

4A collaboration framework , augmentation-automation continuum

See also

  • Human-AI collaboration pattern — One of four canonical patterns describing how humans and AI share work: augment (AI enhances human judgment), assist (AI supports but human decides), automate (AI executes with human oversight), arbitrate (AI adjudicates between human positions).
  • Role redesign — Explicit redefinition of jobs when AI shifts tasks between humans and systems — covering new accountabilities, required skills, oversight responsibilities, and performance metrics.
  • Human oversight (Art. 14) — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the provider-designed measures that allow natural persons to understand the capacities and limitations of a high-risk AI system, monitor its operation, and intervene or interrupt it.