Security leaders in SMEs should make risk-aware choices about Claude plans and products rather than enabling all features immediately, and should include shadow AI usage by employees in their risk modeling.
The challenge is not to choose a side, but to create feedback loops that mediate between the pace of AI-accelerated development and the requirements for reliability and maintainability.
Only one in five social scientists uses autonomous coding agents, despite their potential to revolutionize research processes, with clear disparities emerging by gender and institution—pointing to growing digital inequalities in academia.
