DevOps leader John Willis on how SRE helps reduce shadow AI

Calming AI chaos: DevOps leader John Willis on how SRE can help constrain shadow AI

This episode—part two of a three-part series with DevOps leader John Willis—focuses on “shadow AI.” Similar to the more-familiar “shadow IT,” shadow AI is the unconstrained expansion of AI that creates operational chaos and adds to technical debt. It occurs when organizations fear embracing AI but workers use it anyway—though without governance. To fix shadow AI, John says, companies should embrace AI, constrain it with site reliability engineering, and leverage it to meet business goals.

If we've learned anything, let's embrace...Embrace doesn't mean we do everything. Embrace is we take a strategy of learning and experimentation.

John Willis is the founder of Botchagalupe Technologies. An accomplished author and innovative entrepreneur, John is passionate about exploring the synergy between technology and the transformative principles of Dr. W. Edwards Deming.

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