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AI Governance & Digital Risk September 27, 2026

Wakiilku Kuma Saxiixin Heshiiska: AI Madaxbannaan, Nidaamyada Dadweynaha, iyo Qodobka Dhacdada oo ay Degmooyinka Badankood aanay Lahayn

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: waxaa ku jira jadwalka, weli lama soo saarin

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

Novara Consulting Group Insights Heather M. Grizzle Microsoft AI published its Code of Conduct for MAI models on 14 September 2026 and opened a six-week public consultation on the text. The document sets out the intended behaviors, values, and guardrails…

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Strategic Risk September 14, 2026

The AI CEOs Found the Brakes… Sign Language AI Should Pay 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

The Words Put in Your Mouth: Sign-to-Text AI and Fluent Error

*Confident mistranslation in sign-to-text systems, and the benchmarks that cannot see it* 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 Optimization for…

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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

Sagaal-iyo-Toban boqolkiiba: Gacmo shaqaale ah oo calaamado ku sameeya fasallada Kenya, iyo caddaynta iibsade waxbarasho oo dadweyne uu ka sugi lahaa ka hor sii ballaarinta

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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Strategic Risk September 6, 2026

My Life as a Cyborg: 2026

A 2026 Rewriting Heather M. Grizzle Originally written in 2010. Rewritten in 2026 to say what I now think the earlier essay was trying to say. H.G. Wells sends a sighted man into a valley where no one can see,…

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