Shadow Agents
Unsanctioned autonomous AI agents deployed within an organization without governance team awareness, capable of taking actions that affect business systems and external parties.
Shadow agents are the agentic evolution of shadow AI. Where shadow AI typically describes employees using unsanctioned generative tools, shadow agents are autonomous systems - built by individual developers, business unit teams, or smuggled in via embedded AI features - that take real-world actions like sending emails, querying databases, or invoking APIs. The risk is qualitatively higher than shadow AI because agent actions can be irreversible and can compound across systems.
A customer support team builds an agent on top of a public LLM platform to auto-respond to common tickets. The agent is given API access to the support system and begins refunding customers autonomously - without governance audit trail or escalation logic in place.
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