The consulting firm is asking job candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study as part of a pilot in its business school recruitment program, people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times. The firm could roll out the test to all junior recruits in the coming months. (Financial Times)

Talking point: While competing consulting firm Accenture has been “exiting” staff who can’t pick up AI skills, McKinsey has gone so far as to consider its AI agents as part of its workforce. Global managing partner Bob Sternfels told the Harvard Business Review last week that the firm’s workforce is “40,000 humans and 20,000 agents,” but that the firm is more open to liberal arts graduates than in the past as it seeks more creative thinking from humans. Sternfels said he expects the number of agents and humans at the firm could be about equal in 18 months. The Financial Times report said that the firm aims to cut around 10 per cent of non-client-facing jobs over the next two years amid its AI push.