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Deaf Led AI Goverance 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 Goverance 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 Goverance 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 Goverance 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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Deaf Led AI Goverance July 27, 2026

The Consent Gap: Undisclosed Data Collection in Sign Language AI Interpreting Systems

Executive Summary Sign language artificial intelligence, whether built for recognition, translation, or avatar-based generation, depends structurally on video…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance July 22, 2026

The Procurement Theater Problem: Procedural Assurance, Evidentiary Assurance, and the Governance of Accessibility AI

Executive Summary Institutions acquiring artificial intelligence systems for communication access are increasingly confident that they have managed risk,…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance July 15, 2026

Who Audits the Audit Trail? AI-Generated Conformance Claims and the Procurement Problem

The history of public procurement can be read, in part, as the history of documentary trust. Governments rarely…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance July 14, 2026

Who Audits the Audit Trail? AI-Generated Conformance Claims and the Procurement Problem

The history of public procurement can be read, in part, as the history of documentary trust. Governments rarely…

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Deaf Led AI Goverance July 12, 2026

NCG Insight: From Disney’s ASL Fragmentation to the SLxAI Governance Gap

Disney’s limited ASL rollout is not an isolated execution choice. It is a clean analog for what is…

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