New Article on Medium: Three Stories About Corporate AI Adoption


New Article on Medium: Three Stories About Corporate AI Adoption







We just published a deep dive on Medium exploring a scenario playing out in companies everywhere: employees using personal AI accounts for work because their organizations haven't provided approved tools yet.

The piece follows three fictional professionals - a software developer managing double workloads, a DevOps engineer preventing system outages, and a CFO under board pressure for productivity gains. All facing the same impossible choice: meet performance expectations or follow IT policies that haven't caught up with AI reality.

Key insights from the article:
  • Why the "don't ask, don't tell" approach to workplace AI is more common than companies realize
  • How productivity pressure drives individual risk decisions
  • The gap between AI expectations and enterprise governance timelines
  • Real examples of the types of data inadvertently flowing to external AI services

This isn't about reckless employees or negligent leadership - it's about smart people making rational decisions under competing pressures. The solutions are coming, but the transition period raises fascinating questions about enterprise technology adoption.

Read the full article on Medium

What patterns are you seeing in your organization? Are teams finding unofficial workarounds while waiting for approved AI tools?

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Aaron Rose is a software engineer and technology writer.

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