Goldman Sachs Partners with Anthropic to Deploy AI Agents for Accounting and Trading Tasks
Summary
Goldman Sachs partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI agents for automating accounting, trading reconciliation, and client onboarding, with embedded engineers building autonomous systems that executives expect will accelerate processes and limit future hiring rather than trigger immediate layoffs.
Key Points
- Goldman Sachs partners with Anthropic to develop AI agents using Claude model for automating accounting, trade reconciliation, and client onboarding processes
- Embedded Anthropic engineers spend six months at Goldman building autonomous systems that executives expect will speed processes and limit future headcount growth rather than cause immediate job cuts
- The bank plans to expand AI automation beyond coding to other complex, rules-based work areas like employee surveillance and investment banking pitchbooks after being surprised by Claude's capabilities