Collaboration Profile · Experimental
Two pieces of work can have similar Human Agency Index results and still reflect very different human–AI relationships. AgencyThread describes that relationship separately through an Experimental Collaboration Profile.
Insufficient Evidence is treated separately as an evidence status. It is not a sixth position on the collaboration spectrum.
The human performs most of the substantive development. AI plays little or no material role in shaping the work itself.
The key feature is not that AI was absent. It is that the human remained the clear source of substantive development.
The human remains the primary developer, while AI provides meaningful assistance.
AI may support research, critique, organization, editing, or drafting without becoming a substantive co-developer of the underlying work.
Human and AI both materially shape and develop the work through reciprocal interaction.
Each contribution changes what happens next. The process involves more than a human approving AI output and more than AI simply polishing human-created work.
The human remains intellectually consequential, but AI performs a larger share of the substantive development.
The person may still frame the task, redirect the work, evaluate alternatives, and retain meaningful authority. The defining feature is that AI carries more of the detailed construction.
The human meaningfully frames or governs the task, while AI performs most of the substantive generation and development.
This can still be an entirely appropriate workflow. The profile describes what happened; it does not judge whether delegation was the right decision.
Descriptive, not ranked
No position on this spectrum is inherently superior. A well-governed Delegated Generation workflow may be exactly right for a routine task. Co-Intelligence is not automatically better because both parties contributed more.
Together, they describe the process more fully than either one could alone.