THE HUMAN YIELD
SECTION 15
ISSUE 001
Procurement Needs an Augmentation Score
Provocation: every workplace-AI purchase should receive an augmentation score. Does it expand judgment, remove drudgery, create surveillance, or erase the practice through which people learn? Publishing that score would put job quality beside accuracy and price—and give workers a common language for contesting a deployment.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
ILO analyzes augmentation, job quality, and algorithmic management; OECD reports training and organizational context shape worker outcomes.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Its Impact on Jobs
ILO research paper / published 2025-05-31 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02AI and skills: What we know so far
intergovernmental current-state report / published 2026-06-05 / retrieved 2026-07-10
- S03Economy — 2026 AI Index Report
academic current-state report / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10