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 "meta": {
  "title": "AI rules for candidates at selective employers: a source-verified register",
  "short_title": "WGI AI Rules Register",
  "version": "2.0",
  "observation_date": "2026-09-23",
  "status": "PUBLISHED",
  "canonical_url": "https://whogetsin.com/trackers/ai-policy",
  "author": {
   "name": "Hassan Akram",
   "role": "Research lead",
   "url": "https://whogetsin.com/about/hassan"
  },
  "publisher": "Who Gets In? (research initiative of Elite Careers Strategy)",
  "research_question": "What do selective employers in banking, law, consulting and prestigious UK graduate schemes officially tell candidates about using AI at each selection stage, and what do they disclose about their own use of AI in selection?",
  "unit": "institution x market/programme scope x selection stage x observation date",
  "inclusion": "Institution appears in the WGI check list; statement published on the institution's own domain, official careers site, or firm-operated application portal; statement addresses candidate AI use or the employer's AI use in selection.",
  "exclusion": "Press reports, vendor case studies, coaching and test-prep sites, forum posts (recorded as secondary leads only). Group-level AI ethics statements not specific to recruitment.",
  "denominator_note": "The check list is a purposive list of well-known selective employers, not a random or complete sample. Counts describe this list only and are not prevalence estimates.",
  "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",
  "quote_verification": {
   "method": "Independent pass: each quote tested against document text in a live Chrome session, 23 Sep 2026; 4 near-matches corrected in v1.0 (typo retained with [sic], clause joins and truncations fixed).",
   "result": {
    "VERBATIM": 87,
    "NEAR_MATCH": 4
   }
  }
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  "N_statement_located": 36,
  "N_not_located": 31,
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    "not_located": 13,
    "checked": 24
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    "not_located": 1,
    "checked": 4
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    "not_located": 3,
    "checked": 8
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   "Corporate comparators": {
    "located": 3,
    "not_located": 0,
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   "Law": {
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    "not_located": 14,
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    "PwC UK",
    "Clifford Chance",
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    "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",
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  "F2_application_help_allowed_and_protected_stage": {
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    "HSBC",
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    "Barclays",
    "Nomura",
    "Bain & Company",
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    "BlackRock",
    "Nomura",
    "Rothschild & Co",
    "Bain & Company",
    "Accenture",
    "UK Civil Service Fast Stream",
    "Bank of England",
    "Teach First",
    "Slaughter and May",
    "Ashurst (Ashurst Perkins Coie)",
    "Norton Rose Fulbright",
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    "CMS",
    "Bird & Bird",
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    "Mishcon de Reya"
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   "institutions": []
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    "Clifford Chance",
    "Deloitte UK",
    "BlackRock",
    "Amazon"
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  "F4_employer_discloses_ai_use": {
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    "BCG",
    "Standard Chartered",
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    "Roland Berger",
    "Accenture",
    "KPMG UK",
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    "Mishcon de Reya",
    "Skadden"
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    "Clifford Chance",
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    "Macquarie Group",
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    "Citi",
    "Roland Berger",
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   "JPMorganChase",
   "Morgan Stanley",
   "Bank of America",
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   "Lazard",
   "Evercore",
   "Centerview Partners",
   "Blackstone",
   "KKR",
   "Bridgewater Associates",
   "Citadel",
   "Jane Street",
   "Linklaters",
   "Freshfields",
   "Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer",
   "Latham & Watkins",
   "Kirkland & Ellis",
   "White & Case",
   "Sidley Austin",
   "Davis Polk",
   "Macfarlanes",
   "Hogan Lovells",
   "Baker McKenzie",
   "Simmons & Simmons",
   "Weil",
   "Paul Weiss",
   "Oliver Wyman",
   "Kearney",
   "L.E.K. Consulting",
   "EY UK"
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