Goldman Sachs restricts traders from using certain AI tools

The bank is limiting advanced AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude and Microsoft GitHub mainly to engineers, and some traders are not happy about it Goldman Sachs is pulling some of its shiniest AI toys off the trading floor. Under updated internal guidelines announced in October 2026, the bank is restricting access to advanced AI coding and programming tools, mainly to its engineering staff. Traders and bankers who had grown used to those tools now find the door partly closed. The affected tools include Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft GitHub. Both had been available to non-technical employees. Going forward, they will primarily serve engineers. What changed, and who got left out The core of the policy is simple. If you write code for a living at Goldman, you keep your AI coding assistants. If you mostly trade or advise clients, your access is being narrowed. Traders had been using these tools for work like trade monitoring, building models and generating content. The change has frustrated traders who leaned on these tools for that work. There is one notable carve-out. Quant strategists are exempt from the new restrictions. Their jobs straddle trading and engineering, mixing ma...