The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:32:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Five Ways AI Could Transform Coming Proxy Seasons – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Five Ways AI Could Transform Coming Proxy Seasons https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/03/08/five-ways-ai-could-transform-coming-proxy-seasons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-ways-ai-could-transform-coming-proxy-seasons https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/03/08/five-ways-ai-could-transform-coming-proxy-seasons/#respond Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:30:58 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=179626?d=20260306165449EST Posted by James Langston and Carmen Lu, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Sunday, March 8, 2026
Editor's Note:

James E. Langston and Carmen X. Lu are Partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. This post is based on a Paul Weiss memorandum by Mr. Langston, Ms. Lu, Katherine Forrest, and Jonathan Ashtor.

Recent decisions by J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Wells Fargo to deploy artificial intelligence (“AI”) to guide proxy voting are evidence of deeper structural changes already underway that could transform future proxy seasons. The near-term impact of AI will likely be most acutely felt in the shift away from benchmark voting policies developed by proxy advisors to customized voting policies developed with the aid of AI. Over the medium to longer term, AI could potentially upend the tactics, tools and timing of future proxy contests. We highlight below five potential changes that could occur in the coming years.

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