Companies restrict worker access to specific AI tools

Rather than embracing AI wholesale, employers are making granular choices about which tools employees can access—acknowledging that unrestricted ChatGPT or Claude can expose proprietary data, create compliance risks, or reduce focus. Companies recognize that more AI isn't the answer, and are instead building permission layers and department-specific deployments (legal gets different access than marketing). The constraint isn't adoption itself, but the operational overhead of governance—which favors enterprise vendors selling pre-built compliance features over open models.