What to do when your employees are hiding their AI use

I’ve been having a lot of conversations with industry leaders lately about the prevalence of so-called “shadow AI.” They’re worried about the risks of unapproved AI tools at work, and most come to me wanting to know how to rein in their employees. But that’s looking at the problem backwards. Their concern is well founded. Among organizations surveyed in IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 that had experienced a data breach, 43% reported security incidents involving shadow AI, up fro...