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How Organizations Lost Control of Artificial Intelligence — Without Noticing

De: Eduardo Valencia

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Your organization is using AI. No one can tell you exactly how.

No meeting approved it. No strategy document recommended it. Artificial intelligence entered through small, reasonable decisions — a developer saving time, an analyst automating a report, a manager trusting a system "just this once." Each decision made sense. None felt consequential. Together, they changed how work was done without anyone having to acknowledge that anything fundamental had changed.

Shadow AI is the first book to name this pattern: widespread but weakly governed AI use that operates in plain sight, sustained by the assumption that informal judgment and good intentions are sufficient to manage it.

Drawing on direct experience across technology consultancies, financial services, and public institutions in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Eduardo Valencia traces the arc from invisible adoption to organizational reckoning — and shows that the problem is not technological but organizational.

Control is not dominance. It is awareness. And in a world of probabilistic systems, awareness is the only form of control that lasts.

Eduardo Valencia is also the author of Artificial Intelligence Requires Human Intelligence: Why the Smartest People Make the Worst Decisions with AI.