Shadow AI is Shadow Analytics on steroids

I was at an executive summit in Boston a week ago, and Shadow AI came up. It gave me déjà vu of 2014 and Shadow Analytics. Back then when IT said "no," workers just pulled data into Excel and ran their own ungoverned reports. I worked for an analytics company at the time and saw the security issues for myself. The difference now is speed. The Shadow AI cycle is faster and riskier. If a spreadsheet formula is broken, the math just doesn't work, and likely it was shared within the company.