{"id":27936,"date":"2025-01-30T08:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=27936"},"modified":"2025-01-30T08:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:28:42","slug":"%e8%82%a1%e4%b8%9c%e6%96%bd%e5%8e%8b%e8%8b%b9%e6%9e%9c%ef%bc%9a%e8%a6%81%e6%b1%82%e5%85%b6%e5%85%ac%e5%bc%80-ai%e9%bb%91%e5%8c%a3%e5%ad%90%ef%bc%8c%e6%8f%90%e9%ab%98%e9%9a%90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/27936.html","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders Pressure Apple to Disclose AI 'Black Box', Increase Privacy Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 30, 2011 - According to the newly disclosed shareholder proposal, a number of shareholders have asked the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b9%e6%9e%9c\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [apple]]\" target=\"_blank\" >apple<\/a>The company pressured it to disclose more of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a> Activity details to further improve training and reasoning Apple Intelligence (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/apple-intelligence\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Apple Intelligence<\/a>) Transparency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27937\" title=\"1f615626j00sqvl9c00abd000v900hkp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1f615626j00sqvl9c00abd000v900hkp.jpg\" alt=\"1f615626j00sqvl9c00abd000v900hkp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The proposal, submitted by the National Law and Policy Center (NLPC), proposes to add a motion to the 2025 shareholder vote called \"Ethics Report on Access to and Use of AI Data,\" which will be voted on at Apple's annual shareholders meeting on February 25th.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal requires Apple to prepare a report assessing the risks to the company's operations, finances, and public health, safety, and well-being posed by the unethical or inappropriate use of external data in the course of the development and training of its AI programs, and is required to describe the steps Apple has taken to mitigate these risks and its methodology for evaluating their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>In the document, the NLPC highlights public concerns about AI and data ethics, including the way data is accessed to train models, such as \"data scraping, unauthorized collection, and unauthorized use of proprietary or copyrighted content.\"<\/p>\n<p>In order to mitigate risk and \"enhance shareholder value,\" the NLPC insisted that Apple further disclose its strategy for the ethical use of user data in AI development.1AI cites a blog post in which the NLPC argues that the report is intended to encourage Apple to<strong>Taking a more active<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e9%9a%90%e7%a7%81%e4%bf%9d%e6%8a%a4\" title=\"[Sees articles with [privacy protection] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Privacy<\/a>position, which may provide the company with a strong competitive advantage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NLPC notes that Apple was invited to join OpenAI's board of directors, but relinquished its seat \"after antitrust concerns arose. Apple's association with OpenAI raises more questions in light of the company's alleged unethical data collection practices.<\/p>\n<p>While the proposal is highly critical of Apple's AI efforts and its opaque policies, its impact is likely to be limited. In addition to accepting shareholder proposals, Apple will advise shareholders on how to vote. In this case, Apple may be advising shareholders to oppose the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the core elements of the proposal may still have an impact on Apple, prompting it to maintain as ethical an operation as possible. For example, while Apple prefers to process on-device and thus not feed back user data, it still relies on cloud servers to process certain queries.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Apple employs \"private cloud computing\" to maximize privacy, and through extensive use of encryption, Apple is unable to access user queries. Apple has also attempted to address the collection of copyrighted data by finding archives and requesting paid access.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to information dated 30 January, according to the most recently disclosed shareholder proposal, several shareholders pressure Apple to disclose more details of AI activities and to further enhance the transparency of training and reasoning Apple Intelligence. The proposal, submitted by the United States Center for National Law and Policy (NLPC), proposed that a bill entitled \u201cEthic report on the acquisition and use of AI data\u201d be added to the shareholders' vote in 2025 and that the proposal be voted at the Apple Annual Shareholders' Conference on 25 February. The proposal requires Apple to prepare a report assessing the unethical or improper use of external data for company operations, finance and public health in the development and training of AI projects<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,3024,345,5655],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-27936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-apple-intelligence","tag-345","tag-5655"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=27936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}