PS-REP-164 · r1
REPRESENTATION
OBSERVED
ENGAGED
INSTRUCTION AND INTENTION
The operator says where; the function decides how, and only one of the two is on the surface by default.
01 DEFINITION
Condition in which an operator states an outcome and an automated function determines the route to it, so the operator's account of what will happen and the function's own account can differ without the difference itself being visible.
02 CONDITIONS
UNCERTAINTY
MISSING
The difference between the stated outcome and the generated route is not itself represented anywhere.
TIME PRESSURE
MODERATE
The divergence becomes visible over the course of the action rather than at any single moment.
ERROR ASYMMETRY
ASYMMETRIC
Intervening in a sound plan and failing to intervene in an unsound one do not cost the same.
OPERATOR STATE
SUPERVISORY
The operator has handed over the execution and kept the outcome, which is what makes the gap possible.
03 WHERE IT APPEARS
MOBILITYA destination is given and the route is computed, and the two are only compared after the vehicle has taken a turn the person did not expect.
LOGISTICSAssignments are issued as outcomes while the path to each is decided by the system, and the difference surfaces as a delay rather than as a disagreement.
MEDICALA planned approach and the one an assisted function proposes are held by different parties, and neither view shows the other.
ENERGYDispatch targets are set and the sequence to reach them is generated, so the intent and the schedule are two accounts of one action.
AI EXP.An instruction states an outcome and the system composes the steps, and the steps are visible only after they have been taken.
DEFENSEA position is designated and the route to it is the function's own, so the stated goal and the intended path are separate accounts.
04 WHAT AEON WORKED THROUGH HERE
The instruction was a destination; everything between the instruction and the destination was the function's own. Showing only the instruction made the function look obedient, and showing only its plan made the instruction look ignored. The work went into where the two are put side by side, and on what a difference between them is allowed to mean.
What stays unresolved is when showing the function's own plan helps and when it only invites second-guessing — the operator who can tell a bad plan from an unfamiliar one is not the operator who most needs to see it.