I saw it as "yes" when algorithm can perform the programmed operations without human input or guidance.

@bennetkl I agree with that interpretation - the semantic is straightforward to the name of the field.

But with that, we may need to rewrite the summary to something like this instead:

States if the system can perform decision
or action
without the involvement of a human.

It's similar to the current summary, but written from an opposite point of view - put the autonomy concern at the center (and human involvement a secondary).

Way forward to 3.1, we may like to consider that automation has degrees.

See this table of varying degrees of automation from https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063641 :

As a note, I feel that the use of PresenceType here for "human presence" is a little bit of a mismatch.

To my understanding, the type is more about presence of a metadata.

Its description says:

This type is used to indicate if a given field is present or absent or unknown.

But for 3.0.x, I don't think we can change the type.

The best we can do is to put in the description, what "yes" means and what "no" means.

This issue may resolved by #741