Match the Level to the Stakes

The principle

Autonomy is a spectrum, from 'the computer suggests' to 'the computer acts and then tells you' to 'the computer acts and decides whether to tell you at all'. The highest levels are a bad idea for consequential actions, because no aid is perfectly reliable and the cost of a confident error has no ceiling. Autonomy isn't one switch. It's a dial you set per action, based on how reversible and costly that action is.