Alphabet Shareholders Vote June 6 on Online Child Safety, AI Bias Proposals
Alphabet shareholders will decide on a dozen shareholder proposals at the company's June 6 annual meeting, according to its proxy statement issued Friday. Among them is an Inspire Investing proposal that seeks a report evaluating how Alphabet oversees risks related…
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to generative AI bias against religion or political views, and whether such discrimination may affect customers’, users’ and other individuals’ exercise of their constitutionally protected civil rights. Another proposal, from Boston Common Asset Management, seeks a report that includes quantitative metrics assessing whether and how Alphabet and its YouTube subsidiary have improved child safety and harm reduction to children on their platforms. Also on the agenda is a proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research that asks Alphabet to reconsider participating in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, owing to its “hyper-partisan, divisive and increasingly radical criteria." Disney shareholders in March rejected a similar shareholder proposal from the group (see 2504230003). The Alphabet board is recommending "no" votes on all 12 proposals.