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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 16 — a016

# Matthew Kropp

**Role in this source:** Lead-listed 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 and advisors who have collectively guided **over 400 companies** through AI transformations — the practical basis for the [[framework-responsible-human-ai-collaboration]]. He is the named voice for the collective author quote in [[quote-oversight-capacity]]: *"Oversight capacity does not expand automatically just because output does."*

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Co-author of the central thesis rejecting [[concept-ai-employee-framing]] in favor of treating AI as software automation.
- Co-author of the randomized experiment behind [[claim-accountability-shift-d6]], [[claim-escalation-increase]], [[claim-quality-control-decline]], [[claim-identity-erosion]], [[claim-adoption-drivers]], and [[claim-brain-fry-errors]].
- Co-designer of the [[framework-responsible-human-ai-collaboration]] and its sub-framework [[framework-accountability-rules]].
- Named attribution for [[quote-oversight-capacity]].