The adoption of GenAI is rapidly expanding across all fields. It’s well-known that, when used by skilled linguists, GenAI can significantly boost efficiency and reduce the costs of language services. Unless you specifically request to exclude AI from your translation process, no professional linguist should charge you for tasks that can be handled by the machine.

No. While AI continues to improve, model capabilities are plateauing and converging. Under the current technological paradigm, AI remains constrained by the datasets on which it was trained and defaults to the mean. That prevents it from matching expert human translators on critical, creative, or highly specialized work. AI can produce general translations quickly, but it lacks the judgment, cultural insight, and accountability required for high-stakes projects. Rather than replacing true experts, AI allows translators with the right skills to focus on tasks AI cannot master.