What "Advanced" Really Means: Integrating the Right People

Most AI literacy frameworks equate "advanced" with automation: the fewer humans in the loop, the higher the level. 問用管造 defines it the other way around. Advanced means OUTCOME + IMPACT — integrating the right people at scale.

Advanced looks different across the four dimensions, but the essence is one: advanced Asking integrates experts' frameworks; advanced Using integrates the audience's real pain points; advanced Managing integrates a human-AI hybrid team; advanced Building integrates domain experts with end users. Every step up puts the right people into the loop — it never removes them from it.

Sega Cheng of iKala sees the same thing from the industry side: what remains scarce are senior people with deep domain knowledge who can define problems precisely — once AI absorbs execution, human value migrates to creativity and judgment. Automation is a means. It was never a level.

AI made execution cheap. Knowing whom to bring in — and being able to integrate them — is the new scarcity.