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Meta-analysis·20 August 2026

Shadow AI in German companies. Not a discipline problem, a supply problem.

Staff have long used AI, often with private accounts, past IT. We wanted to know how widespread this really is in German companies and what drives it. Instead of building our own survey, we evaluated the representative Bitkom surveys on the topic. Here's what the data say, and why bans don't solve the problem.

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