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# Shadow AI: The Murky Threat to Enterprise Adoption of Generative AI

**[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Enterprises are hesitant to adopt generative AI due to concerns about data privacy. Shadow AI poses risks such as data leakage and compliance violations. Privacy-enhancing technologies like homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, and differential privacy are used to protect data in GenAI. Confidential computing, using hardware-based trusted execution environments, is a privacy-preserving AI solution. It ensures sensitive data is protected during use and is implemented in various environments. The ultimate goal is to achieve confidential AI, a secure platform that uses TEEs to train and operate machine learning models on sensitive data.

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