BBC World Service

Some Shareholders Aren't Happy About Alphabet's Lack of Transparency Over Artificial Intelligence

Some Shareholders Aren't Happy About Alphabet's Lack of Transparency Over Artificial Intelligence

“Generative AI makes up information. It creates information and misinformation that doesn’t exist. So, yeah, there are a wide number of experts that are concerned about it, and the shareholder proposal at Alphabet, and one that we’ve raised at other companies, reflects that concern. One survey shows that people, because of generative AI and those concerns about generative AI, they are eroding public trust in technology generally, and that’s one of the things that concerns us about the public franchise that these companies have.”