Shadow AI Is Going to Be a Thousand Times Worse Than Shadow IT

E349 - Shadow AI Is Going to Be a Thousand Times Worse Than Shadow IT

Published: May 6, 2026

Duration: 45:06

#349: Every platform you already own is about to have AI baked into it. Not next year. This year. That is Ben Wilcox's blunt prediction, and Ben is the CTO and CISO at ProArch, so when he says shadow AI is going to make shadow IT look quaint, it is worth slowing down to figure out what that actually means. The data leaves your stack through tools you already paid for, through features the vendor shipped without asking, through copilot agents nobody filed a ticket for.

Here is the uncomfortable part. This is not a new problem. It...