Goldman Sachs rolls out an AI assistant for its employees as artificial intelligence sweeps Wall Street

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Goldman Sachs is rolling out a generative AI assistant to its bankers, traders and asset managers, the first stage in the evolution of a program that will eventually take on the traits of a seasoned Goldman employee, according to Chief Information Officer Marco Argenti.

The bank has released a program called GS AI assistant to about 10,000 employees so far, with the goal that all the company's knowledge workers will have it this year, Argenti told CNBC in an exclusive interview. It will initially help with tasks including summarizing or proofreading emails or translating code from one language to another.

«Think about all the tasks that you might want to complete with regards to a variety of use cases for all those professions that can be now at your fingertips,» Argenti said. The Goldman assistant is a «very simple interface that allows you to have access to the latest and greatest models.»

Goldman's move means that, along with JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, the world's top three investment banks have aggressively released generative AI tools to their workforce, a remarkable development since ChatGPT went viral about two years ago.

Wall Street has embraced generative artificial intelligence faster than any other disruptive technology in recent years, experts say, because of how adept large language models are in replicating aspects of human cognition.

Today it can respond to queries, write emails and summarize lengthy documents, but expectations are high that future versions will exhibit so-called «agentic» abilities, meaning they can perform multi-step tasks with little human intervention.

In speaking with CNBC about his vision for artificial intelligence at the firm, Argenti — who joined from