Bring Your Own AI: How to Balance Risks and Innovation

Organizational leaders face a new AI challenge: Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI), the phenomenon of employees using unvetted, publicly available generative AI tools for work. While these tools promise productivity and creativity, they also bring security and governance dangers. This raises a critical question: Should leaders ban BYOAI? New MIT research shows that bans don’t work, but leaders can enact guardrails and guidelines that mitigate risk — while opening the door to organizational innovation.