From AI Augmentation to Automation, or Amplification?
Psychology Today | 31.01.2026 22:31
We stand at an inflection point where artificial intelligence reshapes what we do and who we become in the process. The debate around AI typically oscillates between two poles: augmentation, where machines enhance human capability, and automation, where they gradually replace it entirely. But there's also an alternative emerging, amplification, where AI becomes a mirror and multiplier of what makes each of us irreducibly human. That distinction matters.
