Shopify shareholders voted down a proposal calling on the company to adopt a formal AI policy, with just under 14% backing it at the annual general meeting. The Shareholder Association for Research and Education brought the measure on behalf of the United Church of Canada’s pension plan, arguing that generative and agentic AI carry risks around human rights, misinformation, and erroneous automated transactions. Shopify’s board urged a no vote, calling the proposal disconnected from how it builds technology and saying its existing contracts and terms of service already set guardrails around AI.
