Shadow AI: Unapproved Tools, Extensions, and Copy‑Paste Ops
Updated: September 17, 2026
Shadow AI isn't a big vendor deal. It's the tiny shortcuts: a browser extension that "summarizes email," a VS Code plugin that indexes your repo, a chatbot where someone pastes internal docs "just to test." Banning it won't work. People have deadlines. The fix is boring and effective: find what's already in use without blame, ship an approved toolkit that covers real jobs, and set simple guardrails for the copy‑paste zone so speed doesn't turn into a data leak. read on »