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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 16 — a016

# Emma Wiles

**Role in this source:** Co-author of *"Research: Why You Shouldn't Treat AI Agents Like Employees"* (Harvard Business Review, 2026), affiliated with [[entity-boston-consulting-group-d6]] and the [[entity-bcg-henderson-institute-d6]].

**Profile:** One of the economists/advisors on the author team. The article's methodology — a large-scale randomized experiment plus a survey of **1,261 managers** across the U.S., Canada, and the EU — reflects the empirical, economics-oriented approach the author group brings.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Co-author of the experimental findings quantifying anthropomorphism's effects: [[claim-accountability-shift-d6]], [[claim-escalation-increase]], [[claim-quality-control-decline]], [[claim-identity-erosion]], [[claim-adoption-drivers]], [[claim-brain-fry-errors]].
- Co-designer of the [[framework-responsible-human-ai-collaboration]].
- Contributor to the survey evidence in [[concept-ai-employee-framing]].