“AI Sherlocking” poses a severe strategic risk where AI platforms absorb a company’s hard-won problem-solving logic rather than just its raw data . While modern enterprise contracts typically protect prompts and outputs, critical intellectual property leaks through employee interaction feedback, synthetic data reuse in future models, and the general capability improvements platforms gain from observing top-tier problem solvers . Coupled with widespread “shadow AI” use through unsecured personal accounts, organizations risk unwittingly training their future competitors . To protect their “logic sovereignty,” business leaders must tighten vendor terms around feedback logs, isolate core IP using fully private or on-premises models, and modularize workflows to keep master methods entirely in-house .

“AI Sherlocking” poses a severe strategic risk where AI platforms absorb a company’s hard-won problem-solving logic rather than just its raw data . While modern enterprise…

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