Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Business. Here’s What to Do.

Around three-quarters of employees already use AI tools their employer never approved, and executives are among the heaviest users. Company data is going into services you cannot see, audit or control.

The response is not a ban — bans push the behaviour further underground. It is to give every employee a governed seat that is at least as good, with the data permissions, DLP and retention set to your policy, and then measure adoption so the shadow tools fall out of use.

This piece lays out the immediate steps: baseline what is in use, close the highest-risk gaps first, and move people onto governed AI before a leak becomes an incident.