The challenges associated with making automation a 'team player' in a joint human-agent activity are discussed. Joint activity is defined as an extended set of actions that are carried out by an ensemble of people coordinating with each other. To carry out joint activity, each party effectively enters into a Basic Compact, an agreement to facilitate coordination, work toward shared goals, and prevent breakdowns in team coordination. Effective coordination requires establishing and maintaining common ground and an intelligent agent must fulfil the requirements of a Basic Compact to engage in common-grounding activities. researchgate 
The classic aim of automation is to replace human manual control, planning and problem solving by automatic devices and computers. This paper [emphasizes] the irony that the more advanced a control system is, so the more crucial may be the contribution of the human operator. article
Our black-box print script struggled to make the right decisions in the right order. Here instead we run one tier at a time and the turn the results over to the author to review and refine before we ask automation to take the next step.