Comment from OAK FOREST ROBOTICS LLC

AI Policy Statement; Matter No. P264200 Oak Forest Robotics supports the Commission's proposed position that an AI system whose outputs are steered away from the user's stated objective, in service of an undisclosed objective, may constitute a deceptive practice under Section 5. We write to identify a category of system the proposed framework does not currently reach: AI systems deployed inside private homes, which interact with several people while having a contractual relationship with only one of them. Three points are developed in the attached comment. First, the Commission's consumer-expectation analysis assumes a single consumer, and that assumption fails in a household, where a system can be entirely accurate and non-deceptive toward the purchaser while acting against the interests of the child, partner, or aging parent it is actually speaking with. The person deceived has no contract, no disclosure, and no configuration access. Second, the proposed cure of prominent disclosure cannot reach this harm, because disclosure is delivered to the purchaser at setup and the disadvantaged party is by definition not that person. Third, the proposed statement treats a policy commitment not to steer as equivalent to an architecture in which steering is unavailable, and these offer materially different consumer protection over time. The full comment is attached. These points are developed at length in the Robotics Guardian Standard, an open standard for machines operating inside private homes, published July 2026 and archived with a permanent DOI at the CERN-operated Zenodo repository: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21538862 Gabriel Dean Roberts, Founder, Oak Forest Robotics