How governance gaps are creating a shadow AI risk for finance leaders
THE SO WHAT
Shadow AI isn’t just rogue tools—it’s ungoverned models quietly driving financial decisions with no audit trail. CFOs need a live inventory of AI-involved workflows and a minimum standard for approvals and logging before productivity pilots harden into invisible control failures.
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