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The history of public procurement can be read, in part, as the history of documentary trust. Governments rarely purchase software after examining its source code. Universities do not independently inspect every security control claimed by a learning management system, nor…
Read NowDisney’s limited ASL rollout is not an isolated execution choice. It is a clean analog for what is currently unfolding across the sign language AI ecosystem. The pattern is identical. The delivery mechanism is different. From an NCG lens, this…
Read NowFor the past several years, executives, commentators, and media panels have repeated the same exhausted narrative over and over again. Workers are supposedly less motivated. Younger generations are allegedly less resilient. Nobody wants to work anymore. New hires are described…
Read NowThe sign language AI conversation is starting to make me uneasy, and not because I think technology should stop evolving. What concerns me is how quickly people are rushing to promote AI signing avatars as the future of accessibility while…
Read NowThe sign language AI market is beginning to resemble a familiar pattern seen across emerging technology sectors: excitement first, governance later, accountability somewhere far behind both. Over the past year, “AI ASL avatars” have exploded into conference stages, LinkedIn thought…
Read NowHospitals are not testing grounds for immature accessibility technology. A mistranslated grocery order is inconvenient. A mistranslated explanation of surgical complications, medication dosage, psychiatric evaluation, or emergency consent can alter the course of someone’s life. That distinction matters because much…
Read NowArtificial intelligence has become an increasingly significant component of contemporary public administration, reshaping how governments allocate resources, procure services, deliver public programs, and interact with citizens (Wirtz et al., 2019; Zuiderwijk et al., 2021). The rapid expansion of AI across…
Read NowFor decades, Deaf people fought a battle that most of society barely noticed. They fought for recognition that signed languages were real languages. They fought educational systems that discouraged or outright prohibited signing. They fought employers who viewed communication access…
Read NowA procurement officer evaluating a signing avatar system has instruments for nearly everything except the thing that matters. There are established questions for encryption at rest and in transit, for data residency, for subprocessor disclosure, for uptime guarantees, for indemnification,…
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