Worker Rights
Michael Connor
Investor Brief on the Impact of Digital Tech on ...

Open MIC and ICCR recently collaborated to release “Dehumanization, Discrimination and Deskilling: The Impact of Digital Tech on Low-Wage Workers.” The investor brief explores how surveillance tech, algorithmic management systems, displacement by AI and automated hiring tools contribute to increased workplace discrimination, diminished autonomy, and reduced job quality.

Investor Brief on the Impact of Digital Tech on Low-Wage Workers
Artificial Intelligence, Shareholder Engagement
Jessica Dheere
Open MIC Refiles Shareholder Proposal at ...

Encouraged by strong votes at AI companies, as well as Microsoft’s inaugural Responsible AI Transparency Report, Open MIC and partners seek to build momentum for more disclosure and remediation of AI risks. 

Open MIC Refiles Shareholder Proposal at Microsoft Calling for Annual Report on Mitigation of AI Risks
Press Releases
Jessica Dheere
2024 Shareholder Votes Send Strong Message to ...

Investors in Meta Inc. and Alphabet Inc. used votes at their recent annual meetings to highlight serious concerns about the deployment of generative artificial intelligence (gAI) technology and its potential to generate harmful disinformation and misinformation. A shareholder proposal at Meta won 56.3% of the independent shareholder vote, while a similar proposal at Alphabet won 45.7% of the independent shareholder vote.

2024 Shareholder Votes Send Strong Message to Meta and Alphabet Regarding Artificial Intelligence
Press Releases
Jessica Dheere
Majority of Independent Shareholders Support ...

At Meta’s annual meeting last week, a majority of independent shareholders (53.6%), representing $635 billion in market cap, voted in favor of a proposition demanding more disclosure of the costs and risks associated with the development and deployment of generative AI products. Alphabet shareholders will vote on a similar resolution this Friday.

Majority of Independent Shareholders Support More Disclosure, Accountability at META for Generative AI; Alphabet Up Next
Press Releases
Jessica Dheere
Shareholders Prepare to Vote on Handling of ...

Over the next two weeks, shareholders at Meta and Alphabet will vote on first-time resolutions calling for more disclosure on the costs and risks of generative AI to the company and society, and on how the companies are mitigating those risks. To date, neither company reports on how well it adheres to the promises it makes with regard to AI, a trend with a long precedent in the social media era.

Shareholders Prepare to Vote on Handling of Generative AI by Meta and Alphabet Amid Global Information Integrity Concerns

Facial Recognition

Shareholders Say Amazon's Moratorium on Facial Recognition Isn't Enough

Shareholders Say Amazon's Moratorium on Facial Recognition Isn't Enough

JUNE 11, 2020 — Following intense pressure from shareholders and media justice and civil rights organizations, Amazon announced yesterday that it will impose a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition, the company’s highly-criticized and racially biased facial recognition technology. In response to the company’s announcement yesterday, Michael Connor, Executive Director of Open MIC––a non-profit that works with shareholders to foster corporate accountability in the tech sector––said, “This is welcome news after years of shareholders’ organizing to push Amazon to end sales of harmful, unregulated technology to police. But it’s only a temporary moratorium, and it doesn’t address deeper concerns that shareholders have regarding Amazon’s role in a rapidly-developing surveillance economy.”

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Coalition Urges U.S. Government to End Facial Recognition Programs

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Coalition Urges U.S. Government to End Facial Recognition Programs

Open MIC today joined a coalition of 40 organizations in urging the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent executive branch agency, to recommend suspension of facial recognition programs across the federal government. The organizations sent a letter to the PCLOB citing the dangerously rapid growth of government-supported facial recognition systems targeting American citizens within the United States.

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