BYOAI is not only a security threat. It is a signal that employees are already finding value in AI faster than organizations are designing ways to govern it.
The next enterprise AI risk is not simply depending on cloud infrastructure. It is depending on external APIs for the intelligence layer of the organization.
The real AI cost lever of 2026 isn’t pricing. It’s deciding which tasks actually need a frontier model — and which ones a local LLM can do just as well for a fraction of the cost.
