US regulator denies Apple, Disney bids to skip votes on AI
Apple and Disney cannot avoid shareholder votes about their use of artificial intelligence put forward by a labor group, the top US securities regulator has ruled.
In notices dated Jan. 3, the US Securities and Exchange Commission rejected requests by the iPhone maker and by the entertainment giant to exclude from their upcoming annual meetings calls for reports on their use of AI.
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The similar shareholder proposals were filed by a pension trust of the AFL-CIO, the largest American labor union federation, which also has AI measures pending at four other technology companies.
At Apple, the group asked for a report on the company's use of AI «in its business operations and disclose any ethical guidelines that the company has adopted regarding the company's use of AI technology.» In a similar request, it also asked Disney to report on its board's role overseeing AI usage.
In its supporting statement at Apple the AFL-CIO wrote that «AI systems should not be trained on copyrighted works, or the voices, likenesses and performances of professional performers, without transparency, consent and compensation to creators and rights holders.»
Brandon Rees, deputy director of
