The Art of Control: Balancing Autonomy, Authority, and Initiative in Human-AI Co-Creation
TL;DR for operators Most AI product debates still treat “control” as a single slider: more automation on the right, more human control on the left. Convenient, tidy, and wrong in exactly the way tidy models usually are. The MOSAAIC paper argues that control in human-AI co-creation has at least three separable dimensions: autonomy, or who can choose creative actions; initiative, or who can proactively contribute; and authority, or who can decide and direct the process.1 This matters because a system can be highly autonomous but still reactive, proactive but not authoritative, or authoritative in small tactical ways while leaving the human responsible for the final artifact. ...