{
  "name": "Who Gets In? AI Rules Tracker v2.0: citation objects",
  "description": "Stable, citable statements of the tracker's headline findings, each with its universe, n, observation date, limits and sources. Generated from the v2.0 register; figures are never typed by hand.",
  "register": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
  "tracker": "https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy",
  "version": "2.0",
  "observation_date": "2026-09-23",
  "research_lead": "Hassan Akram",
  "publisher": "Who Gets In? (research initiative of Elite Careers Strategy)",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
  "preferred_attribution": "Who Gets In? research led by Hassan Akram",
  "findings": [
    {
      "id": "AIR-2.0-F1",
      "version": "2.0",
      "title": "Employers allow AI help on the written application but draw the line at interviews",
      "status": "PUBLISHED (restates figures published on the tracker page)",
      "canonical_url": "https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy#cite",
      "citation_object_url": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-findings-2026-09-23.json#AIR-2.0-F1",
      "observation_date": "2026-09-23",
      "published": "2026-09-23",
      "updated": "2026-09-23",
      "universe": "67 selective employers in banking, asset management, private equity, law, consulting, the Big Four and prestigious UK graduate schemes, on a purposive WGI check list (not a random or complete sample).",
      "n": 30,
      "of": 67,
      "institutions": [
        "McKinsey & Company",
        "UBS",
        "PwC UK",
        "Clifford Chance",
        "Deloitte UK",
        "HSBC",
        "BCG",
        "A&O Shearman",
        "Macquarie Group",
        "BlackRock",
        "Barclays",
        "Deutsche Bank",
        "Nomura",
        "Rothschild & Co",
        "Bain & Company",
        "Accenture",
        "KPMG UK",
        "UK Civil Service Fast Stream",
        "Bank of England",
        "Teach First",
        "Amazon",
        "Slaughter and May",
        "Ashurst (Ashurst Perkins Coie)",
        "Norton Rose Fulbright",
        "DLA Piper",
        "CMS",
        "Bird & Bird",
        "Travers Smith",
        "Mishcon de Reya",
        "Google"
      ],
      "method": "Official candidate-facing pages only (employer domain, official careers site or firm-operated application portal). Each coded cell carries a verbatim quotation and URL, checked against the live page on the observation date. Absence is recorded as \"checked, no statement located\", never as \"no policy\".",
      "short_form": "Of 30 selective employers that publish a rule on candidates' use of AI, 24 allow AI help with the written application and none forbid it; 17 forbid AI in interviews and none allow it.",
      "full_form": "Counts are of the 30 employers, out of 67 checked, whose official pages address candidates' own use of AI, observed 23 September 2026. \"Allowed\" includes allowed with limits. \"Forbidden\" includes forbidden unless the employer authorises it.",
      "supported": [
        "We located official statements on AI in selection for 36 of the 67 employers checked.",
        "30 of those 36 address candidates' own use of AI.",
        "Among those 30, 24 allow AI help on the written application and 17 forbid AI in interviews, as published on 23 September 2026."
      ],
      "not_supported": [
        "That AI use in interviews is undetectable or detected.",
        "That employers without a located statement allow AI, or have no policy.",
        "That any employer can detect AI use, or enforces its rule consistently.",
        "That the counts describe all selective employers (the list is purposive, not a sample).",
        "That a rule applies in every market or programme beyond the scope recorded for that employer."
      ],
      "sources": "Each institution's official URL and verbatim quotation: https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
      "dataset": {
        "json": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
        "csv": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.csv",
        "change_log": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-change-log-2026-09-23.json"
      },
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
      "citation": "Akram, H. (2026). AI rules for candidates at selective employers: a source-verified register. Who Gets In? AI Rules Tracker v2.0, observed 23 September 2026. https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy Finding AIR-2.0-F1.",
      "corrections": "https://whogetsin.com/methodology#corrections"
    },
    {
      "id": "AIR-2.0-F2",
      "version": "2.0",
      "title": "Protected stages: where employers forbid candidate AI",
      "status": "PUBLISHED (restates figures published on the tracker page)",
      "canonical_url": "https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy#cite",
      "citation_object_url": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-findings-2026-09-23.json#AIR-2.0-F2",
      "observation_date": "2026-09-23",
      "published": "2026-09-23",
      "updated": "2026-09-23",
      "universe": "67 selective employers in banking, asset management, private equity, law, consulting, the Big Four and prestigious UK graduate schemes, on a purposive WGI check list (not a random or complete sample).",
      "n": 18,
      "of": 36,
      "institutions": [
        "McKinsey & Company",
        "UBS",
        "PwC UK",
        "Clifford Chance",
        "Deloitte UK",
        "HSBC",
        "Macquarie Group",
        "BlackRock",
        "Barclays",
        "Nomura",
        "Bain & Company",
        "Accenture",
        "KPMG UK",
        "UK Civil Service Fast Stream",
        "Bank of England",
        "Norton Rose Fulbright",
        "Bird & Bird",
        "Google"
      ],
      "method": "Official candidate-facing pages only (employer domain, official careers site or firm-operated application portal). Each coded cell carries a verbatim quotation and URL, checked against the live page on the observation date. Absence is recorded as \"checked, no statement located\", never as \"no policy\".",
      "short_form": "18 of the 36 selective employers with a located official statement on AI in selection (67 checked) prohibit candidates from using AI in at least one online test or interview (13 name online tests, 17 name interviews).",
      "full_form": "Counts are of 67 employers checked, observed 23 September 2026. 4 employers build AI into one of their own assessments (Clifford Chance, Deloitte UK, BlackRock, Amazon); none allow unrestricted candidate AI in interviews.",
      "supported": [
        "18 employers publish a prohibition on candidate AI in at least one test or interview."
      ],
      "not_supported": [
        "That the remaining employers permit AI in tests or interviews.",
        "That employers without a located statement allow AI, or have no policy.",
        "That any employer can detect AI use, or enforces its rule consistently.",
        "That the counts describe all selective employers (the list is purposive, not a sample).",
        "That a rule applies in every market or programme beyond the scope recorded for that employer."
      ],
      "sources": "Each institution's official URL and verbatim quotation: https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
      "dataset": {
        "json": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
        "csv": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.csv",
        "change_log": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-change-log-2026-09-23.json"
      },
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
      "citation": "Akram, H. (2026). AI rules for candidates at selective employers: a source-verified register. Who Gets In? AI Rules Tracker v2.0, observed 23 September 2026. https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy Finding AIR-2.0-F2.",
      "corrections": "https://whogetsin.com/methodology#corrections"
    },
    {
      "id": "AIR-2.0-F3",
      "version": "2.0",
      "title": "AI on the other side of the table: employers disclosing their own AI use",
      "status": "PUBLISHED (restates figures published on the tracker page)",
      "canonical_url": "https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy#cite",
      "citation_object_url": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-findings-2026-09-23.json#AIR-2.0-F3",
      "observation_date": "2026-09-23",
      "published": "2026-09-23",
      "updated": "2026-09-23",
      "universe": "67 selective employers in banking, asset management, private equity, law, consulting, the Big Four and prestigious UK graduate schemes, on a purposive WGI check list (not a random or complete sample).",
      "n": 11,
      "of": 36,
      "institutions": [
        "McKinsey & Company",
        "HSBC",
        "BCG",
        "Standard Chartered",
        "Citi",
        "Roland Berger",
        "Accenture",
        "KPMG UK",
        "Amazon",
        "Mishcon de Reya",
        "Skadden"
      ],
      "method": "Official candidate-facing pages only (employer domain, official careers site or firm-operated application portal). Each coded cell carries a verbatim quotation and URL, checked against the live page on the observation date. Absence is recorded as \"checked, no statement located\", never as \"no policy\".",
      "short_form": "11 of the 36 selective employers with a located official statement (67 checked) disclose their own use of AI in selection; 4 of them also restrict candidates' AI use (McKinsey & Company, HSBC, Accenture, KPMG UK).",
      "full_form": "Counts are of 67 employers checked, observed 23 September 2026. 6 employers state that they do not use AI in selection (PwC UK, Clifford Chance, A&O Shearman, BNP Paribas, Teach First, Unilever).",
      "supported": [
        "11 employers publish a statement that they use AI somewhere in their own selection process."
      ],
      "not_supported": [
        "That the other employers do not use AI in selection.",
        "How much weight any AI output carries in a decision.",
        "That employers without a located statement allow AI, or have no policy.",
        "That any employer can detect AI use, or enforces its rule consistently.",
        "That the counts describe all selective employers (the list is purposive, not a sample).",
        "That a rule applies in every market or programme beyond the scope recorded for that employer."
      ],
      "sources": "Each institution's official URL and verbatim quotation: https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
      "dataset": {
        "json": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
        "csv": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.csv",
        "change_log": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-change-log-2026-09-23.json"
      },
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
      "citation": "Akram, H. (2026). AI rules for candidates at selective employers: a source-verified register. Who Gets In? AI Rules Tracker v2.0, observed 23 September 2026. https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy Finding AIR-2.0-F3.",
      "corrections": "https://whogetsin.com/methodology#corrections"
    },
    {
      "id": "AIR-2.0-F4",
      "version": "2.0",
      "title": "Who decides: published statements on human decision authority",
      "status": "PUBLISHED (restates figures published on the tracker page)",
      "canonical_url": "https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy#cite",
      "citation_object_url": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-findings-2026-09-23.json#AIR-2.0-F4",
      "observation_date": "2026-09-23",
      "published": "2026-09-23",
      "updated": "2026-09-23",
      "universe": "67 selective employers in banking, asset management, private equity, law, consulting, the Big Four and prestigious UK graduate schemes, on a purposive WGI check list (not a random or complete sample).",
      "n": 16,
      "of": 36,
      "institutions": [
        "McKinsey & Company",
        "UBS",
        "PwC UK",
        "Clifford Chance",
        "HSBC",
        "BCG",
        "A&O Shearman",
        "Macquarie Group",
        "Standard Chartered",
        "Citi",
        "Roland Berger",
        "Accenture",
        "KPMG UK",
        "Amazon",
        "Unilever",
        "Mishcon de Reya"
      ],
      "method": "Official candidate-facing pages only (employer domain, official careers site or firm-operated application portal). Each coded cell carries a verbatim quotation and URL, checked against the live page on the observation date. Absence is recorded as \"checked, no statement located\", never as \"no policy\".",
      "short_form": "16 of the 36 selective employers with a located official statement (67 checked) publish a statement that people, not AI, make or review selection decisions.",
      "full_form": "Counts are of 67 employers checked, observed 23 September 2026. The statements differ in strength; the grade shown on the tracker is WGI's classification of the quoted wording.",
      "supported": [
        "16 employers publish a human-oversight or human-decision statement."
      ],
      "not_supported": [
        "That a person reviews every candidate at every stage at those employers.",
        "That employers without such a statement let AI decide.",
        "That employers without a located statement allow AI, or have no policy.",
        "That any employer can detect AI use, or enforces its rule consistently.",
        "That the counts describe all selective employers (the list is purposive, not a sample).",
        "That a rule applies in every market or programme beyond the scope recorded for that employer."
      ],
      "sources": "Each institution's official URL and verbatim quotation: https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
      "dataset": {
        "json": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.json",
        "csv": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-register-2026-09-23.csv",
        "change_log": "https://whogetsin.com/ai-rules-change-log-2026-09-23.json"
      },
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
      "citation": "Akram, H. (2026). AI rules for candidates at selective employers: a source-verified register. Who Gets In? AI Rules Tracker v2.0, observed 23 September 2026. https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy Finding AIR-2.0-F4.",
      "corrections": "https://whogetsin.com/methodology#corrections"
    }
  ]
}