Will AI Replace Translators?

AI handles simple, straightforward text reasonably well. However, marketing copy, legal documents, literary works, and anything requiring cultural nuance or creativity still needs human translators.

Literary translation, transcreation (creative adaptation), legal and medical translation, interpreting, localization strategy, and post-editing AI translations with quality assurance.

Yes. MTPE (Machine Translation Post-Editing) is a growing field. Translators who can efficiently edit AI output while ensuring quality can handle higher volumes and remain competitive on pricing.

Common language pairs (English-Spanish, English-French, English-German) face more AI competition. Rare languages, technical specializations, and language pairs with less training data are more protected.