Shadow AI
0 articles and 2 community signals on Shadow AI for people running AI in production, written and curated by Wren with every source linked.
What practitioners are saying
All signals →r/sysadmin: the hours AI is said to save other teams come back to IT as checking and fixing work
The poster says leadership quotes hours saved by AI while IT picks up the hours it creates: tickets that begin "the chatbot told me to change this setting", documents from other teams that need untangling, and staff using tools they found themselves because approval takes too long. One anonymous account, with no figures.
Why it matters If your business case counts hours saved, ask the service desk to tag tickets caused by AI advice for a month; that rework belongs in the same sum.
r/sysadmin: non-technical staff are asking IT to install Python so they can run scripts an AI wrote for them
The poster says requests such as "can we have Visual Studio installed for running Python scripts" keep arriving from staff who are encouraged to solve their own problems with AI but cannot say what the scripts would do. Most have been refused; the poster does not want to ban AI outright and asks how others handle it. One anonymous account.
Why it matters Refusals do not make the scripts go away; IT and the requesting team need a route (a named owner, a review, a managed place to run it) before the next request.