What's the difference between AI replacement and AI augmentation?
Replacement removes human judgment from a workflow and hands the whole task to a model; augmentation keeps a human in the loop and uses AI to speed up their work. The failures at Pizza Hut and Klarna were replacement bets — the deployments that hold up in practice are almost always augmentation bets.
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