If your job is to swing a hammer, then hammer swinging robot automates your job.

If your job is to swing a hammer, then drill robot augments your job (your job is now swing hammer and drill hole).

How that is different from drill bot automating human driller's job is an exercise left to the reader.

> What is the effective difference between augment and automate?

If the field has a future.

> What is the effective difference between augment and automate?

The paper says one of those is impacted, and the other isn't.

So, yeah, not only that's what the GP is asking, but I'd like to know it too.

The total output isn't going to stay the same, though.