Shining a Light on Shadow AI: How Enterprises Can Turn Hidden Risk into Real ROI
RTInsights, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
Shadow AI isn't going away. Enterprise that get out in front of it can convert the shadow AI problem into a competitive advantage with demonstrable ROI.
There's a quiet revolution happening inside most enterprises right now, and IT doesn't know about it. The 'it' is shadow AI.
Employees are using personal AI tools to do their jobs. Over half of employees have fed sensitive information into AI tools like ChatGPT, routing business queries through accounts that exist entirely outside the corporate firewall. It's called shadow AI, and for most organizations, it's not a future risk. It's already here.