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Machines act and coordinate

Several machines or agents act on one another, with commitments made between them without a human deciding each one.

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Machine assists
The human decides every consequential action; the machine proposes or supports.
Human supervises
The machine decides and acts; a human is expected to monitor and intervene at the task level.
Machine acts alone
The machine decides and acts with no human in the loop for that action.

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