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## Segment 8 — execution

## Article 76 — a076

# Eric Anicich

**Role in the source:** Co-author (with [[entity-jeslyn-brouwers|Jeslyn Brouwers]]) of the Harvard Business Review article *"Why Employees Aren't Transparent About Their AI Usage."* An organizational-behavior researcher; he is the primary authorial voice advancing the source's thesis that shadow AI is a crisis of trust, not governance.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Coins/advances the reframe [[concept-suppression-of-solutions]] and the direct quote [[quote-suppression-of-solutions]].
- Co-authors the empirical finding [[claim-trust-predicts-hiding]] (survey of 604 U.S. employees) and its corollary [[claim-tools-amplify-trust]].
- Introduces the diagnostic [[framework-costs-of-ai-visibility]] and the prescriptive [[framework-leadership-commitments-for-disclosure]].
- Advances [[claim-efficiency-tax-causes-hiding]], [[claim-governance-targets-wrong-problem]], and [[claim-stigma-drives-silence]].
- Author of the closing warning [[quote-trust-battle-lost]] and the contrarian reframes [[contrarian-ai-silence-is-rational]] and [[contrarian-governance-increases-hiding]].

_Biographical detail beyond authorship is not asserted in the source; treat any further specifics as external context to be verified._