automation (noun)
The use of AI to carry out a task independently, without a person performing or directly overseeing each step. Unlike augmentation, the person's role moves from doing the work to setting it up and checking on it afterward, if at all.
*Example: "Automation meant the report was generated and sent every Monday morning with no one involved unless something went wrong."*
Related: augmentation, agentic, AI labour, hyperautomation