Regulating AI: Regulatory Approaches to AI for Deaf People

Regulation decides which harms count, which duties stick, and whose evidence gets heard. On March 29, 2027, this roundtable puts the regulator’s choices on the table—especially when AI touches communication, work, school, public services, and equal participation for Deaf people.

High-level principles aren’t enough if they never reach the systems and procurement decisions people live with every day. Oversight has to name disability-specific risks, require meaningful participation, and give public authorities tools to spot exclusion and fix it.

For regulators, legislators, civil servants, disability-rights advocates, legal scholars, standards bodies, and anyone under AI oversight.

• The regulatory questions AI raises for Deaf communities
• Rights, risk assessment, accessibility duties, and public procurement
• Supervision, standards, impact assessment, and remedies
• Moderated roundtable on priorities for the next wave of oversight

Speakers*

• Suzy Rosen Singleton — Chief, Disability Rights Office, Federal Communications Commission. FCC disability-communications regulator responsible for captioning, relay, advanced communications, and accessibility policy relevant to Deaf people and AI.
• Will Schell — Deputy Chief, Disability Rights Office, Federal Communications Commission. FCC DRO leadership role with direct relevance to communications access, CVAA implementation, and emerging accessible technologies.
• Michael Scott — Deputy Chief, Disability Rights Office, Federal Communications Commission. FCC DRO leadership role suitable for discussion of accessible communications regulation and AI-enabled captioning/relay issues.
• Andrea R. Lucas — Chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. EEOC chair with jurisdiction over employment civil-rights enforcement, including disability discrimination risks in algorithmic hiring.
• Sivaram Ghorakavi — Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, EEOC. Leads EEOC AI governance while the agency addresses algorithmic fairness and disability discrimination in employment technology.
• Kristi W. Hill, Ph.D. — Acting Director, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, ACL/HHS. Leads the federal disability research institute supporting AI/assistive-technology and rehabilitation research, including Deaf/HH technology RERC work.
• Phillip Beatty, Ph.D. — Director, Office of Research Sciences, NIDILRR, ACL/HHS. Research-agency official relevant to federal funding, evidence, and evaluation of accessible AI and rehabilitation technologies.
• Matthew J. Platkin — Attorney General, State of New Jersey. His office launched a Civil Rights and Technology Initiative addressing algorithmic discrimination and responsible AI under the NJ Law Against Discrimination.
• Lizz Matos — Chief of Civil Rights and Senior Advisor to the Attorney General, Massachusetts AGO. Leads a state civil-rights division relevant to applying anti-discrimination law to AI, including disability and Deaf/HH civil-rights concerns.
• Rob Bonta — Attorney General, State of California. California AG leadership is publicly active on AI oversight and applying consumer-protection and civil-rights laws to AI systems.

TBC

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