Forrester’s 2027 Asia Pacific Predictions: One In Three Large Enterprises Will Face A Shadow AI Agent Governance Problem

According to Forrester’s 2027 Asia Pacific predictions , one in three large Asia Pacific enterprises will uncover at least 10 employee-built shadow AI agents for every officially sanctioned agent. The rapid proliferation of shadow AI, combined with embedded SaaS capabilities, business-funded experiments, and locally selected AI platforms, will outpace institutional controls and create a new class of AI-driven technical debt: unmanaged risk, weakened governance, duplicated capabilities, and undo