‘You fix it by making the secure option just as fast and frictionless as the risky one’: Practical advice on addressing shadow AI
THE SO WHAT
Shadow AI isn’t a policy failure — it’s a product failure when sanctioned tools are slower or harder to reach than consumer apps. If you want people off personal accounts, your internal AI stack has to win on latency, UX, and access, not just compliance.
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