---
id: "entity-boston-university-professor"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Boston University"
aliases: ["BU", "Boston University professor"]
source_timestamps: ["§ Should You Treat AI Like a Teammate?", "¶ 3"]
tags: ["academia", "research"]
related: ["concept-ai-anthropomorphization-risk", "entity-org-bcg", "entity-org-harvard-business-review"]
sources: ["tail1"]
isSpeakerEntity: true
---
## Segment 1 — tail1

## Article 104 — a104

# Boston University

## Profile
Boston University — a major research university. One of its professors co-authored the study on the negative impacts of treating AI agents like employees. In the source's `speakers` list this voice appears as **'Boston University professor.'**

## Role in this source
**Cited research voice.** Academic co-author (with [[entity-bcg-economists]]) of the randomized experiment on AI framing, published via [[entity-org-harvard-business-review-d104]].

## 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]]

## Note
The individual professor is not named in the source, so this collective academic voice is resolved to the Boston University organization entity for cross-vault consistency.