Goldman Sachs is now restricting traders’ and bankers’ access to advanced programming tools, including Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft’s GitHub, which had previously been available to non-technical employees. These tools are now primarily reserved for engineers, while quantitative strategists are exempt from the restriction. The bank says the decision followed a trial period in which it weighed efficiency gains against risks and control requirements. The measure, announced in October 2026, builds on a tightening of Goldman Sachs’s artificial intelligence policy after a geographically focused restriction in April. Alongside the restrictions, the bank is rolling out its proprietary GS AI Assistant to about 46,000 employees and continuing to test agentic AI, including in trade surveillance.
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