H3 as the Dominant Worker-Desired Level

45.2% of occupations have H3 (equal partnership) as the dominant worker-desired Human Agency Scale level.

Distribution of dominant worker-desired HAS levels across 104 occupations:

• H1 (full automation): 1.9%
• H2 (minimal human input): 35.6%
• H3 (equal partnership): 45.2%
• H4 (human-led with AI support): 16.3%
• H5 (essential human involvement): 1.0%

The concentration around H3 underscores worker desire for collaboration rather than replacement. Workers generally prefer higher levels of human agency than what AI experts deem technologically necessary (47.5% of tasks show workers wanting more human involvement than experts think is required.

This gap foreshadows potential friction as AI capabilities advance.

Related: 07-atom—human-agency-scale, 07-atom—automation-vs-augmentation