Can translators rebuild their field with AI?

Hi everyone,

If you’ve been reading my newsletter, you know that I am knee-deep in figuring out how to use AI to create a better future for the workforce.

Today, I am sharing a new project and inviting you to participate!

It is about rehabilitating the translation professions, which have been hit hard by AI adoption.

Translators have suffered from AI adoption consequences more than most. The impacts started with machine translation, long before the generative AI boom, but now the situation has worsened drastically. It is to the point that many are considering leaving the profession, and those who stay face severe economic pressure, loss of agency over their own work, and heightened levels of stress and anxiety, among other impacts.

That may all sound depressing, but the project I’m co-leading in is about creating a way forward.

This project is a collaboration with FIT Europe, which is a “meta-association” of translation professions: It brings together 58 European associations o…