Shadow AI: The Growing Risk IT Leaders Must Address

As long as there have been guardrails, there have been people trying to find ways around them, from the Garden of Eden to that guy in finance downloading open-weight models from Hugging Face.

As long as there has been IT, there has been shadow IT, the phenomenon in which employees use third-party technology without IT’s approval or oversight. Some degree of shadow IT is inevitable, of course. Unfortunately, with the rise of AI, the risks have skyrocketed.

Here’s what IT leaders need to know about shadow AI and how to prepare their…