Overview
- Reports published Monday say Goldman updated internal guidance in October to restrict advanced third-party coding tools such as Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft GitHub mainly to engineers.
- Goldman frames the change as the result of a trial that weighed productivity gains against risks from agents accessing systems, weakened monitoring, and compliance exposure.
- Some traders and bankers are frustrated because they used those tools for tasks like monitoring client flows, building models, and making client materials.
- The bank carved out an exemption for quant strategists whose roles mix trading and engineering, and it continues to roll out its GS AI Assistant to roughly 46,000 staff.
- Goldman’s move follows a wider industry shift where big banks have tightened or limited third-party AI agents after recent agent-related security incidents and regulator scrutiny, and it signals a tilt toward governed, in‑house AI.