Your company may be using AI you don’t know about. It could be putting you at risk

Nearly 9 out of 10 AI tools inside enterprises are invisible to IT. That’s the finding of a LayerX study that should send shivers down the spine of any executive: AI is shaping decisions, summarizing meetings, and analyzing data without the knowledge—or control—of the very teams meant to secure it. What sounds like a technical oversight has become a board-level crisis, worsened by new global regulations.

Last month, the EU’s AI Act entered its next enforcement stage, forcing enterprises to document how general-purpose AI tools process data and threatening penalties of up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover. Yet weeks later, many organizations remain unprepared, struggling even to inventory which AI features are active in their environments. As regulators demand transparency, most ente