Most people using AI at work are doing it on personal accounts, keeping quiet about how good they've gotten. The research calls them secret cyborgs. Really, everyone's just figuring out what to do and how. Show the workflow. Keep the credit.
The people already doing the work. The rules should start from what they built.
Five questions. No login, and this part never leaves the page. It's the same test enterprises use to tier AI work, translated into plain language. Green means go. Yellow means a second set of eyes. Red means slow down, on purpose.
Nobody's doing anything wrong. Most people just don't know what's going on yet, and everyone is figuring out what to do and how. The numbers say quiet AI use is everywhere and it works.
MIT found 95% of official corporate AI pilots produce no measurable return while people's personal workflows quietly deliver. The best AI deployment in most buildings is the one nobody sanctioned. It works because the person who built it redesigned their own job around it.
Reveal that a three-hour task now takes thirty minutes and you don't get an afternoon back. You get six more tasks, and fast becomes the silent new baseline. Nearly half of workers say admitting AI use to their manager feels like looking lazy or less competent. Keeping quiet is a rational read of a bad incentive.
46% of workers say they'd keep using AI through an explicit ban. Blocking pushes the work onto personal phones and home machines where visibility drops to zero. A ban without a better path just moves the risk out of sight.
When disclosure is framed as capability mapping instead of audit, and nobody gets punished for showing their work, disclosure rises 60 to 70%. Credit one builder publicly and every quiet builder recalculates. Punish one and everyone keeps quiet for good.
"Your deployment already happened. Your only decision is whether you get to see it."
David Shapiro, Shadow AI: The Definitive Report (July 2026), the one-line case for amnesty
Twelve questions, two minutes, nothing identifying. Answer honestly and this page hands you your shadow profile: what kind of operator you are and what to do next. The citywide count gets read out at Sharathon.
Companies run amnesties with 30-day windows and executive memos. A city needs a standing monthly gathering with promises kept in public. These are ours.
Bring the workflow that's been sitting in the background. Nobody here is your boss, and nobody cares whose account it runs on. The point is what you built.
Show it and it's yours forever. Your name stays on it when someone else runs it. We don't claw back.
Revealing that something takes you thirty minutes will never become a demand that everything take thirty minutes. Saved time belongs to the person who saved it.
Lights On sessions cost nothing. The amnesty is the front door, and businesses pay for delivery when they want the rails installed.