Shadow AI is a one-click liability, and a tech consultant says most employers have no idea how deep it already goes inside their own organizations.

Mohit Rajhans says employees are uploading pricing structures, proprietary documents, and competitive bid information to unvetted AI tools without understanding the security implications. Some of those tools have already shut down. In some cases, the companies that backed them no longer exist.

Rajhans says the technology is moving too fast for a full audit of who’s used what. Companies need to draw a clear line on what can’t be used, then build tools that actually meet their employees where they are.

Topics: shadow AI, AI data security, proprietary data, unvetted AI tools, cybersecurity

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Originally aired on2026-05-15