Shadow AI: The Invisible Risk Already Shaping Your Business

Like it or not, a new form of risk is entering your value chain.

Shadow AI.
If you're familiar with Shadow IT, you know what's already happened.
That's right. Someone you trust has pulled out their credit card, paid for a generative AI solution like ChatGPT (or Gemini or Claude or...), and then done three totally unsurprising things:

1. Submitted company data to the AI (and the business that owns it).
2. Copied generative AI output.
3. Pasted that output into something mission-critical.

So what?
Haven't we been telling everyone to go all-in on AI?
Yes, of course. And now come the predictable consequences.

[Shadow AI] can result in a governance nightmare that requires deciding what AI usage to permit or restrict to support the workforce while at the same time keeping the business safe.
— Sharon Maher, as contributed to Forbes in 2023.

You will be unsurprised to hear that value chain analysis (in line with Wardley Mapping) helps with the first steps of dealing with Shadow AI.
Register now to join Ben Mosior for ***"Shadow AI: The Invisible Risk Already Shaping Your Business." ***

Please invite a leader you know who is pondering AI implications!