Why Goldman Sachs’ Cio uses a measured approach to the introduction of AI in the whole business
Half of 46,000 Goldman Sachs employees now have access to artificial intelligence. By the end of this year, Marco Argenta’s Chief Information Director expects to be able to use AI even more in the hope of increasing their productivity – but not everyone is still in the company.
“We have a whole organization that has to be re -adapted and re -adapted to AI,” Argenti says. “But, I think we were very, very, very intentional about starting people management.”
Measured approach to Goldman Sachs, ranked #35 on Fortune 500It reflects Argentia’s opinion that AI technology develops rapidly and still comes with a lot of uncertainty. The Goldman AI AI control group and risk and control teams work to determine which of the dozens of proposals should be resolved and how it can be done responsibly.
One example is the experimentation that Goldman works with the agent AI, which is still not fully distributed. AI agents should work autonomously or with small human control, performing more steps to explain or complete the tasks. These agents could theoretically perform a harmonization or assistance in processing customers’ transactions. But agents AI also need specific training and can hallucinate, resulting in mistakes in the results they produce. Goldman says he still assesses what additional controls are needed for an effective and safe use of Agency AI.
Since Goldman operates in a highly regulated sector, the industry historically prefers the construction of technology, providing more control to these institutions to protect sensitive financial information about customers. This has changed with the rise of clouds and more recently by generative ai ia the vast majority Financial institutions have arranged at least one generative AI product, often in partnership with external suppliers.
About four employees of Goldman Sachs is an engineer, and this group was the first Argentia targeted when arranging generative a tools. Argenti made it possible for these workers to access Aid Coding tools, including the help of Github Copilot and Gimini Code. Goldman conducted competitions inspired by actual TV entrepreneurial competitive show Shark so that developers can share their most creative use of AI.
Argenti measures the refund of investment from these co -operative tools in several ways, including the frequency of use and a rate of acceptance of a code generated by Github -Ai similar tools.
The wider use of the generative AI within the company came with the launch of GS AI helpers, which was presented last year and expanded to 10,000 employees, including bankers, merchants and managers of assets. This tool, for which Goldman predicts that it will be available to almost all employees by the end of 2025, can summarize documents, draw E -hasty, analyze data and create personalized content.
The GS AI helper was built as a multi-modal, using great languages from Gemini, OpenAI and Llam, and Argenti explored the addition of LLMs from other AI hypersaler. Argenti says he does not want to rely on just one supplier and that the company gives flexibility to use a model that could be better for coding, while the rival offer is stronger in the explanation. Goldman also factor in how much lm -do they easily change and how expensive they are to start.
“All these considerations have led us to the point where we want to continue Plug-and play with these models,” Argenti says.
For workers who are not in engineering, Goldman monitors the rates of use and sends surveys to obtain feedback to improve the improvement of GS AI assistant. The company sought to promote champions from property management and wealth, private banking and trading not technologists-how to get a purchase. “People can be afraid or skeptical when you drive technology first,” Argenti says.
Argenti joined the company as a partner and Ko-Cio in 2019, and he took over the role in 2022 after his Ko-Li, George Lee, became the head of the geopolitical and technological insights of the Arm Goldman Sachs Global Institute. Before joining Goldman, Argenti was Vice President of Technology at the Amazon Web Services for six years, and also held leadership roles in a telecommunications company Nokia.
Much of his earlier work in Goldman is focused on allowing employees of the company to work from home as a result of a global pandemic. But he also wanted to move the engineering culture to be less like the way the bank considers technology, which is prone to creating a solution for each separate division, and more like a technological giant that creates one tool that will be distributed throughout the company.
This newer mindset is reflected in the legend of platforms for operating and managing data with open code, which was publicly launched in 2020. Goldman has been internally built by a legend more than 10 years before the public launch, giving technologists and non -technical users, the possibility of developing applications aimed at data and drawing insights from this information.
The data is the key component of Argenti’s AI strategy, which he calls a three -foot chair that should also represent the Technology itself and the people who use it. Good quality data is needed to make a real exit from LLMS, but change of behavior people is equally important.
“It’s about reinforcing the ability and in the hands of the best people, I think you will get the best results,” Argenti says.
John Kell
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