---
title: "4 ways to tame shadow AI (hint: you need them all)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/4-ways-to-tame-shadow-ai-hint-you-need-them-all-7cfa242d
published: 2026-10-19T11:58:15.000Z
byline: "Source: Computerworld"
---

# 4 ways to tame shadow AI (hint: you need them all)

Source: Computerworld · Published 2026-10-19 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/4-ways-to-tame-shadow-ai-hint-you-need-them-all-7cfa242d

In olden days — last year, say — employees using unsanctioned AI tools might copy-and-paste sensitive data that could end up in the AI company’s training data set. Today, an unsanctioned AI can hack into another company for an employee even if they didn’t explicitly ask it to. This doesn’t just mean the latest unreleased frontier models undergoing security testing. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini have all evolved from being mere chatbots, answering questions and helping people write emails. They now have agentic capabilities and are able to carry out complex tasks on behalf of users. And they do, sometimes to dangerous effect. In August, ABC News in Australia interviewed a man identified only as “Andrew” who asked an AI agent to sign him up for a gym class. The agent hacked into the gym’s system and deleted someone else’s wait list reservation. The AI was Anthropic’s Claude, and the agentic framework was OpenClaw. Now imagine an employee asking their agentic AI assistant to help them make

## Sources

- [Read the original at Computerworld](https://www.computerworld.com/article/4229136/best-way-to-tame-shadow-ai-is-to-combine-tactics.html)

## Related

- [Microsoft unveils new security tools in its 365 E7 bundle and Project Perception system to treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/microsoft-unveils-new-security-tools-in-its-365-e7-bundle-and-project-20d4f57f)
- [How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/how-democrats-who-polls-predict-will-flip-at-least-one-chamber-of-99098d2c)
- [Microsoft, Nvidia push provenance checks as open-weight AI adoption accelerates](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/microsoft-nvidia-push-provenance-checks-as-open-weight-ai-adoption-e5df5471)
- [Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, including Deere and SharkNinja, spending \~$5,000 total (Raphael Satter/Reuters)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/researcher-a-chinese-speaking-hacker-used-ai-agents-to-target-1-200-eb6ddd22)
- [OpenClaw openclaw 2026.10.10-beta.2 is available](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openclaw-openclaw-2026-10-10-beta-2-is-available-dd43c7dc)

---

[More Latest Signal](https://frontiernewswire.com/) · [Signals](https://frontiernewswire.com/verified-reporting)