Which of the following describes the meanings of assist, augment, automate, and redesign in AI-enabled workflows?

• A. Assist: AI helps a human do the task better/faster. Augment: AI does part of the task with human review. Automate: AI does end-to-end with monitoring. Redesign: change the workflow/job itself.
• B. Assist: AI replaces the human role entirely. Augment: AI performs the whole task with no checks.
• C. Assist: AI performs the task; Augment: AI only adds data; Automate: AI creates new processes; Redesign: reduces staff.
• D. Assist: AI is optional; Augment: AI is mandatory; Automate: AI never monitors; Redesign: keeps existing workflow.

Answer: (A)

In AI-enabled workflows, the four terms describe a progression of how much AI is involved and how humans stay involved: assist means AI helps a human do the task more efficiently or accurately while the human retains control and responsibility; augment means AI handles part of the task but a human reviews or supervises the results; automate means AI carries out the entire process end-to-end with monitoring and governance, reducing human intervention to exceptions; redesign means rethinking and changing the workflow itself, including roles and steps, to achieve better outcomes. This set of definitions matches the option where AI supports the human with improved speed and quality, handles a portion of the work with human oversight, carries out the full process with monitoring, and prompts a change to how the work is structured. The other options misrepresent these roles—for example, treating assist as replacing the human, or portraying augmentation as just data addition, or equating automation with creating new processes or simply reducing staff, or suggesting AI is optional or always mandatory with no monitoring—so they don’t align with how these terms are typically defined in AI-enabled workflow design.