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canonicalName: "Boston Consulting Group"
aliases: ["BCG", "BCG economists", "BCG Henderson Institute"]
source_timestamps: ["§ Should You Treat AI Like a Teammate?", "¶ 3"]
tags: ["consulting", "research"]
related: ["concept-ai-anthropomorphization-risk", "entity-org-boston-university", "entity-org-harvard-business-review"]
sources: ["tail1"]
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## Segment 1 — tail1

## Article 104 — a104

# Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

## Profile
Boston Consulting Group — a global management consulting firm. A team of its economists (via the **BCG Henderson Institute**) co-authored the study on the effects of anthropomorphizing AI agents in the workplace. In the source's `speakers` list this voice appears as **'BCG economists.'**

## Role in this source
**Cited research voice.** Co-runner (with [[entity-boston-university-professor]]) of the large-scale randomized experiment on AI framing (tool vs. employee), published via [[entity-org-harvard-business-review-d104]] as *'Research: Why You Shouldn't Treat AI Agents Like Employees.'*

## Attributed contributions in this vault
- [[concept-ai-anthropomorphization-risk]]
- [[concept-blurred-accountability]] · [[claim-accountability-shift-d1]] · [[quote-accountability-shift]]
- [[concept-identity-confusion]] · [[claim-identity-uncertainty]]
- [[claim-ai-employee-framing-adoption]]
- [[contrarian-ai-anthropomorphization]]

## Enrichment context
BCG conducts extensive research on AI in organizations, including the generative-AI experiment showing a ~41% reduction in diversity of thought, and work related to the 'jagged technological frontier' — reinforcing careful role framing and governance over naïve 'AI teammate' narratives.