Automated Translation, Creativity and Ethics

1 Lead-in Wherever you look in the language industry at present, one thing is certain: Tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming workflows, reshaping communicative practices and shifting power relations.This inevitably raises the question of responsibility: Who decides what AI is allowed to do--and who bears the consequences?Who benefits from these technologies?Who bears their potential disadvantages or the risks that come with them?These seemingly simple questions touch on fundamental issues regarding ethics, politics and society.They also permeate current debates in translation and language studies, where automation affects not only technical processes but also cultural and normative dimensions of both theory and practice.For translation studies in particular, this entails challenges that should not be underestimated.With the present is

Automation · Creativity · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Translation Studies and Practices