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Nino Paoli

Citi begins retraining 175,000 employees in working with AI: 'great prompting versus basic prompting to generate impactful results'

Chief executive officer of Citigroup Jane Fraser visits FOX Business Network's "Mornings With Maria" at Fox Business Network Studios on May 29, 2025 in New York City. (Credit: John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Citi is starting a new AI training program aimed at teaching hundreds of thousands of employees how to write better prompts to feed the bank’s generative AI programs.

In an internal memo shared with American Banker, Tim Ryan, Citi’s head of technology and business enablement, and Anand Selva, the bank’s chief operating officer, spotlighted the need for well-written prompts and introduced a mandatory AI training for the majority of its workforce. The memo was sent to 175,000 employees in 80 locations, American Banker reported on Tuesday. The global bank had around 229,000 employees as of the fourth quarter of last year. 

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