Research: Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees

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Generative AI

by Matthew Kropp, Julie Bedard, Emma Wiles, Megan Hsu and Lisa Krayer

May 6, 2026

Illustration by Oscar Duarte

Summary.   

As organizations experiment with placing AI agents on org charts as “employees,” new research shows this framing has unintended consequences. In a large-scale experiment,

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As organizations push to accelerate AI adoption, many leaders are considering a simple idea: Stop treating AI as a tool and start treating it as an employee.

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