‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators?
May 9, 2026
•TheGuardian_Technology•Moderate impact[key points]
Key points
- •AI threatens to replace part of translators' work, but literary translation remains safer.
- •Translators are increasingly requested for post-editing machine-translated texts, a less well-paid task.
- •Creativity and understanding of context remain major assets of human translators facing AI.