India, June 8 -- The instinct takes about three seconds - there is a task, a deadline, and a tool that can close the gap between the two. The employee opens a browser tab, pastes in whatever the job requires- a client's financial data, a patient's clinical notes, or a section of proprietary code, and gets the answer. Fast, clean, useful. Nobody sees it happen. No alarms sound, and no policy flags the event. The data has simply left the building, quietly and completely, and the work continues.

This is how Shadow AI enters an organisation. Not through a breach or a phishing link. Rather, through a productive employee making a reasonable decision with no information about its consequences.

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