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  "id": "rh:concept:operational-autonomy",
  "slug": "operational-autonomy",
  "canonical_name": {
    "ko": "작동적 자율성",
    "en": "Operational Autonomy"
  },
  "alternate_labels": [
    "Operational Autonomy"
  ],
  "deprecated_labels": [],
  "author": {
    "id": "rh:person:yongwook-lee",
    "name": {
      "ko": "이용욱",
      "en": "Yongwook Lee"
    }
  },
  "version": "1.0",
  "status": "authoritative",
  "date_published": "2026-08-24",
  "date_modified": "2026-08-24",
  "definitions": {
    "short": {
      "ko": "작동적 자율성은 기술체계가 인간이 설정한 목적과 제도적 조건에 의존하면서도 자동화·축적·반복·피드백을 통해 개별 인간의 현재 의지나 직접 명령으로 완전히 환원되지 않는 방식으로 작동하는 상대적 자율성이다.",
      "en": "Operational autonomy is the relative autonomy through which a technological system, while dependent upon human purposes and institutional conditions, operates by automation, accumulation, repetition, and feedback in ways that cannot be fully reduced to an individual human being’s present will or direct command."
    },
    "canonical": {
      "ko": "작동적 자율성이란 인간의 설계와 자원에 의존하는 기술체계가 자동화·축적·반복·환류를 통해 개별 인간의 현재 의도에 환원되지 않는 인과적 효과를 지속적으로 발생시키는 상대적 작동 능력이다.",
      "en": "Operational autonomy is the relative operational capacity through which a technological system dependent on human design and resources continually produces causal effects irreducible to an individual human being’s present intention by means of automation, accumulation, repetition, and feedback."
    }
  },
  "problem_statement": {
    "ko": "기술을 전적으로 인간의 도구라고 보면 알고리즘과 플랫폼이 인간의 현재 의도와 무관하게 대규모로 결과를 반복하고 누적하는 현상을 충분히 설명할 수 없다.\n\n반대로 기술을 완전히 자율적인 주체라고 하면 기술결정론과 의인화의 위험이 발생한다.\n\n작동적 자율성은 이 두 극단 사이를 구분하기 위한 개념이다.",
    "en": "If technology is understood entirely as a human tool, it is difficult to explain how algorithms and platforms repeatedly produce and accumulate large-scale effects independently of any person’s present intention. If technology is treated as a fully autonomous subject, however, technological determinism and anthropomorphism follow. Operational autonomy distinguishes a relative mode of operation between these extremes."
  },
  "scope": {
    "ko": "operations",
    "en": "operations"
  },
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  "recommended_citation": "Lee, Yongwook. “Operational Autonomy.” ReHumanities Knowledge, version 1.0. https://knowledge.leehumanities.com/concepts/operational-autonomy.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
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