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## Article 113 — a113

# Richard B. Freeman

**Role in the source:** Co-author of the HBR article, bringing a labor-economics lens to the workplace implications of AI persona.

**Profile:** Economist at [[entity-harvard-university|Harvard University]]; holds the **Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics** and **co-directs the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School**. His research concerns work, labor markets, and the impact of technologies like AI on employment.

**Attributed contributions to this vault (collectively authored):** shares authorship of the study and its organizational framing — particularly the argument that AI persona is a *governed* organizational variable with occupational-health stakes ([[question-long-term-hostile-exposure]]) and the reframing of employee resistance in [[claim-overrides-signal-design-flaws]].