"All the shareholder proposal asks, Is that an independent third party examiner come in and look at the evidence in an organized manner and try to help the company understand what its products are doing to people," Michael Connor, one of the activists, said in an interview Tuesday with Reuters.
"We think this is something the companies should welcome, not oppose," he added.
Connor went on to describe how the company's products create racial bias.
"Alphabet's facial recognition technology has been shown to be biased against people of color... there have been examples of the search engine exhibiting bias and importantly, especially with a platform like YouTube," he said.