Think of the accountants who brought Visicalc (on their Apple computers) into organizations where the IT departments refused to recognize anything but mainframes as “real computers.”

https://www.bespacific.com/beware-the-emergence-of-shadow-ai/

Beware the Emergence of Shadow AI

Tech Policy Press: “The enthusiasm for generative AI systems has taken the world by storm. Organizations of all sorts– including businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations– are excited about its applications, while regulators and policymakers show varying levels of desire to regulate and govern it. Old hands in the field of cybersecurity and governance, risk & compliance (GRC) functions see a much more practical challenge as organizations move to deploy ChatGPT, DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and dozens of other products and services to accelerate their workflows and gain productivity. An upsurge of unreported and unsanctioned generative AI use has brought forth the next iteration of the classic “Shadow IT” problem: Shadow AI…

Shadow AI refers to the AI systems, solutions, and services used or developed within an organization without explicit organizational approval or oversight. It can include anything from using unsanctioned software and apps to developing AI-based solutions in a skunkworks-like fashion. Wharton School professor Ethan Mollick has called such users the hidden AI cyborgs.”

The first of a new wave?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/tech/khan-academy-ai-tutor/index.html

Meet your new AI tutor

… More than 8,000 teachers and students will test education nonprofit Khan Academy’s artificial intelligence tutor in the classroom this upcoming school year, toying with its interactive features and funneling feedback to Khan Academy if the AI botches an answer.

The chatbot, Khanmigo, offers individualized guidance to students on math, science and humanities problems; a debate tool with suggested topics like student debt cancellation and AI’s impact on the job market; and a writing tutor that helps the student craft a story, among other features.

First launched in March to an even smaller pilot program of around 800 educators and students, Khanmigo also allows students to chat with a growing list of AI-powered historical figures, from George Washington to Cleopatra and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as literary characters like Winnie the Pooh and Hamlet.