By Sarah E. Needleman,Tim Paradis
Publication Date: 2026-11-11 10:54:00
Your favorite AI tool at work might soon come with a budget, a gatekeeper, or both.
After years of urging staff to embrace the technology, companies including Goldman Sachs, Cisco, and JPMorgan are taking a more targeted approach to deploying it. From setting budgets and tracking usage to restricting access to certain employees or tools, the different strategies come as companies pour ever-larger sums into AI and seek to reduce security risks.
Many employers are realizing that AI use is “really picking up” and they need to set guardrails, said Lari Hämäläinen, a senior partner in McKinsey & Company’s technology, media, and telecommunications practice.
At Goldman Sachs, CEO and chairman David Solomon said this month that while the bank is rapidly expanding the range of AI tools it provides to its 45,000 employees, it doesn’t make sense for all of them to have access to the most advanced models every day.
“We need frontier models for certain…
