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Deaf Led AI Governance October 12, 2026

The Check Is Still Not There

Four days after NCG published “The Sign Said Something Else,” a second recording surfaced from the same airport,…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 8, 2026

The Record Belongs to the Signer: A Reply to Jeff Panasuik

In brief Jeff Panasuik’s “The Second Language Condition” argues that Google DeepMind’s SL2T removed gloss but kept the…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 8, 2026

The Sign Said Something Else

At CVG, an AI signer told Deaf travelers the wrong time and the wrong train. Everyone else on…

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Deaf Led AI Governance September 29, 2026

The Price of Admission

Some of the state offices that serve Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing residents operate with a handful…

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Deaf Led AI Governance September 27, 2026

The Corpus Question

The face is the data In spoken and written language technology, the training data and the person can…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 23, 2026

The Coordinates of Trust

NOVARA CONSULTING GROUP  ·  NCG SPECIAL ARTICLE The Coordinates of Trust A governance reading of Google DeepMind’s SL2T…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 17, 2026

AI Can Translate. But Who Translates the Risk?

Every AI deployment moves risk onto someone. In most cases it lands on the person with the least…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 15, 2026

The Demo Is Not the Evidence: What Google DeepMind’s Sign Language AI Must Prove Next

On August 12, Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model, and began shipping it in consumer products…

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Deaf Led AI Governance August 4, 2026

The Evidence That Wasn’t And Still Isn’t There

THE FIFTH PARAMETER Novara Consulting Group  ·  Novara Press  ·  Journal of Governance and Evidence in Accessibility AI…

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