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Deaf Led AI Goverance September 27, 2026

The Corpus Question

The face is the data In spoken and written language technology, the training data and the person can usually be separated. A sentence can be stripped of its author. A voice can be transformed until the speaker is unrecognisable and…

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AI Governance & Digital Risk September 27, 2026

The Agent Did Not Sign the Contract: Autonomous AI, Public Systems, and the Incident Clause Most Counties Do Not Have

This article reads the same four incidents from the other chair. It sets out what is publicly known, separates fact from interpretation, and asks what a county, city, or school district already has in its contracts and procurement files that…

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Deaf-Led AI Assurance September 26, 2026

Signapse : sur la feuille de route, pas encore livré

26 September 2026 · Heather M. Grizzle, Novara Consulting Group Why this record exists In August 2026, Novara Consulting Group asked Signapse in public how it defines appropriate-use limits for sign language AI, particularly in educational settings involving Deaf children.…

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Strategic Risk September 14, 2026

Governance Aspiration and Procurement Reality: Reading Microsoft’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct

Perspectives de Novara Consulting Group Heather M. Grizzle Microsoft AI a publié son Code de conduite pour les modèles MAI le 14 septembre 2026 et a ouvert une consultation publique de six semaines sur le texte. Le document énonce les…

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Strategic Risk September 14, 2026

Les PDG de l'IA ont trouvé les freins… l'IA en langue des signes devrait y prêter attention

For years, the dominant story in artificial intelligence was speed. Build the more capable model. Ship the agent. Beat the competitor. Raise the capital. Expand the benchmark. Get the product into the market. Governance could catch up later. Later appears…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

Les mots qu'on vous met dans la bouche : l'IA de traduction signe-vers-texte et l'erreur fluide

*Mauvaise traduction assurée dans les systèmes signe-vers-texte, et les benchmarks incapables de la voir* On 9 September 2026 the Chinese technology outlet Quantum Bit reported a method from vivo AI Lab called CAPO-SLT, from a paper titled “CAPO-SLT: Confidence-Aware Policy…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

Consistently Wrong: Apple DiscoSign and Sign Language AI

A paper posted to arXiv on 2 September 2026 and accepted to the main conference at EMNLP describes DiscoSign, a framework for translating English text into American Sign Language gloss while keeping track of what has already been said. Its…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

Where We Have Control: Signapse SignStream and AI Signing

Synthetic signing by the minute, and the governance that stays behind when the file leaves On 9 September 2026, Signapse launched SignStream Chat, a chat-style tool in which a user types an English sentence and receives an AI-generated video of…

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Strategic Risk September 11, 2026

Ninety-Two Percent of What: Robotic signing hands in Kenyan classrooms, and the evidence a public education buyer should expect before scale

On 9 September 2026, Agence France-Presse carried a report from a Nairobi secondary school for Deaf students on ZeroBionic, a Kenyan start-up whose 3D-printed robotic hands convert a teacher’s speech into signs in real time. Within two days the wire…

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