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Nino Paoli

Sam Altman’s OpenAI is coming for Wall Street’s grunt workers as AI continues to transform the entry level

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (Credit: Kyle Grillot—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

OpenAI is planning to automate away entry-level tasks in finance, according to leaked documents—but experts say this doesn’t necessarily signal a workforce reduction just yet.

Sam Altman’s tech giant has enlisted more than 100 ex–investment bankers to help train its AI models on how to build financial models that could automate hours of entry-level tasks, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and reported Tuesday. The recruits, including former employees of JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, are contributing their expertise to a project code-named “Mercury,” Bloomberg reported.

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