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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 16 — a016

# Julie Bedard

**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 behind the research program that guided **400+ companies** through AI transformations, forming the empirical foundation for this vault's recommendations.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Co-author of the thesis and the randomized experiment underpinning [[claim-accountability-shift-d6]], [[claim-escalation-increase]], [[claim-quality-control-decline]], [[claim-identity-erosion]], and [[claim-brain-fry-errors]].
- Co-designer of the [[framework-responsible-human-ai-collaboration]] and [[framework-accountability-rules]].
- Contributor to the concepts [[concept-accountability-blurring]], [[concept-ai-brain-fry]], and [[concept-oversight-capacity]].