Shadow AI: Resistance is Futile
Techstrong.ai, Friday, August 29th, 2025
A couple of days ago, I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed and a post by my friend and fellow tech-watcher Dion Hinchcliffe caught my eye.
For those who don't know Dion, he's a principal analyst at The Futurum Group and someone I've always found to be both thoughtful and ahead of the curve when it comes to enterprise tech trends. Dion was highlighting a recent piece in Fortune that summarized an MIT study making the rounds in the IT world
Now, the big headline from that MIT research - the one you've probably seen echoing through every tech newsletter and analyst webinar - is how the majority of GenAI projects aren't really moving the needle on the bottom line. The implication: AI is the sizzle, but where's the steak? But Dion zeroed in on a far less-hyped but arguably more important finding: The stealthy, widespread and surprisingly effective phenomenon known as 'Shadow AI.'