Anyone Can Now Build an App for Free, But Shadow AI Is Quietly Putting Your Company Data at Risk (Good Bad Ugly)

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his good, bad, and ugly format with three angles he has not covered before in the series. The good focuses on the ability to build bespoke tools and applications through vibe coding without hiring a developer, removing a financial and technical barrier that kept good ideas shelved for years, including in Andrew's own experience. The bad covers shadow AI, the unapproved tools employees use inside organisations that create serious security blind spots, often without the company ever knowing sensitive data has left their control. The ugly lands on AI-accelerated misinformation and its impact on shared truth in society, arguing that the speed at which fake content can now be produced outpaces any ability to fact check it, with consequences already visible in how election results and major events are perceived and trusted. Andrew closes with the idea that AI is not inherently good or bad, it is an amplifier, and the future depends on how wisely it gets used. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that give you the full picture of where AI is heading.