Elite Careers StrategyWho Gets In?Research by Elite Careers Strategy

Governed signal Official source

SIG-287: A&O Shearman

A&O Shearman's current official guidance page on using AI responsibly in the application process states that directly inputting questions into AI and using the responses word for word, or asking AI to answer test questions, isn't advisable.

Observed · Not stated (firm AI guidance page) · Early careers recruitment · AI policy

Evidence passage recorded against the source

Directly inputting questions into AI, then using the responses word for word or asking AI to answer test questions for you isn't advisable

LimitThe passage is what the research lead recorded against the official page on the observation date. Pages change; check the source and the retrieval date before relying on it.

Scope as recorded

Institution
A&O Shearman
Market
Not stated (firm AI guidance page)
Programme or route
Early careers recruitment
Category
AI policy
Observed
Verification
Verified 16 Sep 2026
Publication ruling
Safe with source
Record status
Active
Corpus layer
Append-only canonical supplement (publication-rulings-supplement-29-2026-09-16.csv)

Official source record

https://careers.aoshearman.com/en/how-to-use-ai-responsibly-application-process

SRC-117 · retrieved 16 September 2026 · Official first-party page, full Chrome render; passage located as literal normalised substring · source record page · supports 3 signals

  • A&O Shearman candidate-facing guidance on responsible AI use in applications
  • A&O Shearman official surface; final URL https://careers.aoshearman.com/en/how-to-use-ai-responsibly-application-process; text SHA-256 b400c4cdc0dd9e014ff52a862893b77c62252cc43921259218e2e206ba907598

LimitOne signal describes one institution, programme, market and date. It is not evidence about other programmes, offices or cycles, and it is not a prevalence estimate.

Cite this object

Who Gets In? (Elite Careers Strategy), SIG-287 A&O Shearman, observed 16 September 2026, https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/signals/SIG-287/

Preserve the institution, programme, geography, observation date and limitation. Do not generalise a single signal to an institution-wide or sector-wide rule.

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