ai-augmentation-not-automation

Read [runtime](../../content/RUNTIME.md) and [advisory rules](../../content/policies/advisory.md) before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in `../../content/`, relative to this SKILL.md. # AI Augmentation, Not Automation In 2005, the online chess platform Playchess.com hosted a freestyle tournament with an unusual rule: any combination of humans and computers could enter. Grandmasters played alongside AI engines and hybrid teams of amateurs armed with laptops. The winners were not the grandmasters. They were not the strongest AI engines. They were two amateur players using three ordinary computers, who had developed a superior process for integrating human intuition with machine calculation. Garry Kasparov, observing the result, articulated the principle that would come to define a generation of human-AI research: "Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process." The centaur -- the mythological creature that is half human, half horse, greater than either -- had entered the business lexicon. The principle applies directly to every organisation contemplating AI: the goal is not to replace the human with the machine but to create a hybrid that outperforms both. --- ## The Framework ### The Automation Trap Up to 60 percent of work activities could be automated, and this trend shows no signs of decelerating. Organisations pursue standardisation...