Report 19 Nov 2024

Prediction for 2025: Shadow AI Will Be The Next Shadow IT (Unless We Prevent It)

2024 was characterized by cloud optimization and FinOps strategies to limit previously uncontrolled and excessive cloud consumption and cost. In the coming years, avoiding a similar trend in the AI space will be crucial. However, excessive consumption and related costs are not the only issues to deal with. The uncontrolled use of AI in a professional context can result in shadow AI, i.e., the non-transparent and uncontrolled use of external AI solutions by employees, which involves risks that are well-known from the shadow IT phenomenon, such as complexity, high costs, and security threats.

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Karsten Leclerque

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