What is Shadow AI?
Any AI tool, assistant, or agent that employees use or build for work without the organization's approval or visibility. Unlike shadow IT, which stored data, shadow AI interprets data, produces new work, and increasingly acts on it, so an employee who builds an agent is delegating decision rights. Governed by making the approved path faster than the workaround and by giving every agent a named owner, scope, and stop condition.
Why it matters
Unlike shadow IT, which stored data, shadow AI interprets data, produces new work, and increasingly acts on it, so an employee who builds an agent is delegating decision rights.
Governed by making the approved path faster than the workaround and by giving every agent a named owner, scope, and stop condition.
How it connects
- Decision rights (AI): The written rules for what an AI system may recommend, decide, and execute, and who owns the outcome.
- AI capability: The ability to make sound decisions with AI under real conditions.
- n.agent: The agent oversight and value calculator.
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