Security pros reckon the biggest AI risk comes with an employee badge

An O'Reilly survey of 209 security professionals ranked employees pasting sensitive company data into consumer AI tools as their top AI security concern — above AI-powered attacks, above AI-generated phishing. The structural problem: when staff route proprietary data through tools outside IT visibility, there is no audit trail and no record of where that data went. The data has already left before anyone notices. What makes this harder than traditional shadow IT is the silence. No unusual login. No bulk download flag. An employee pastes a contract, a customer list, or internal financial projec