Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
Chunk: 82

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 82
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 Secure AI (CoSAI), with founding members like Anthropic, Amazon, Cisco, Cohere, Chainguard, GenLab, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Paypal, and Wiz, to address critical challenges in implementing secure AI systems. We believe our AI and data governance and management structures and continued work with regulators and the broader community on our initiatives address the concerns raised by the proponent. Moreover, we continuously monitor the evolving landscape of AI and regulation to proactively address emerging risks and ensure long-term compliance. Consequently, our Board believes adopting this proposal would not be in the best interests of the company and our stockholders. Required Vote Approval of the stockholder proposal requires the affirmative FOR vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of Alphabet’s shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class. Unless marked to the contrary, proxies received will be voted AGAINST the stockholder proposal. Alphabet Recommendation

| OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE AGAINST THE 
 STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL.                                |

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Proposal Number 12:
Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Human Rights
Impact Assessment of AI-Driven Targeted Ad Policies Shareholder Association for Research & Education on behalf of the United Church of Canada Pension Plan, as lead filer, along with other co-filers, whose names, addresses, and stockholdings will be provided by us upon request, have advised us that they intend to submit the following proposal for consideration at the Annual Meeting. RESOLVED : Shareholders request the Board of Directors of Alphabet Inc. to publish an independent third-party Human Rights Impact Assessment (the “Assessment”), examining the actual and potential human rights impacts of Google’s artificial intelligence-driven targeted advertising policies and practices. This Assessment should be conducted at a reasonable cost; omit proprietary and confidential information, as well as information relevant to litigation or enforcement actions; and be published on Alphabet’s website by June 1, 2026 . WHEREAS: Alphabet’s advertising business, which heavily relies on artificial intelligence (“Al”), accounted for more than 75% of Alphabet’s revenue in 2023. 1 Algorithmic systems are deployed to deliver targeted advertisements,