From the Alphabet Inc. 2024 Proxy Statement:
Dear Stockholders
We are pleased to invite you to participate in our 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Annual Meeting) to be held on Friday, June 7, 2024, at 9:00 a.m., Pacific Time. We have adopted a virtual format for our Annual Meeting to provide a consistent experience to all stockholders regardless of location.
Alphabet stockholders of Class A or Class B common stock (or their proxy holders) as of the close of business on the record date, April 9, 2024 (Record Date), can participate in and vote at our Annual Meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GOOGL24 and entering the 16-digit control number included in their Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (Notice), voting instruction form, or proxy card. All others may view a live webcast of the Annual Meeting through our Investor Relations YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/c/AlphabetIR on June 7, 2024, at 9:00 a.m., Pacific Time.
Further details regarding participation in the Annual Meeting and the business to be conducted are described in the Notice you received in the mail and in this proxy statement. We have also made available a copy of our 2023 Annual Report to Stockholders (Annual Report) with this proxy statement. We encourage you to read our Annual Report. It includes our audited financial statements and provides information about our business.
We have elected to provide access to our proxy materials online under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s “notice and access” rules. We are constantly focused on improving the ways people connect with information and believe that providing our proxy materials online increases the ability of our stockholders to connect with the information they need, while reducing the environmental impact of our Annual Meeting.
Your vote is important. Whether or not you plan to participate in the Annual Meeting, we hope you will vote as soon as possible. You may vote online, as well as by telephone, or, if you requested to receive printed proxy materials, by mailing a proxy or voting instruction form. Please review the instructions on each of your voting options described in this proxy statement and in the Notice you received in the mail. For more information, please see the Questions and Answers section of this proxy statement or visit the Annual Meeting of Stockholders section under the heading “Governance” on our Investor Relations website at https://abc.xyz/investor/annual-meeting/.
Open MIC co-filed Proposal 12, up for a vote in this AGM. The proposal, “
Stockholder proposal regarding a report on generative AI misinformation and disinformation risks (page 96)” calls on Alphabet to publish an annual report to help identify the risks of generative artificial intelligence to both the company and society, to develop means of mitigating these risks, and to demonstrate their effectiveness.