Legal Translators Need AI Literacy for Digital Resilience
Key takeaways
- Generative AI transforms legal translation, introducing both opportunities and risks.
- AI literacy is crucial for legal translators to maintain professional competence and digital resilience.
- A proposed framework includes foundational, procedural, critical, and strategic AI literacy dimensions.
- Developing AI literacy ensures responsible and ethical integration of AI into legal translation workflows.
Who benefits
Summary
This chapter proposes an AI literacy framework for legal translation professionals, arguing that while generative AI transforms the field, it necessitates an extension of professional competence rather than a change in fundamental objectives. The framework emphasizes foundational, procedural, critical, and strategic dimensions to foster digital resilience.
Why it matters
Professionals in specialized fields like legal translation must develop robust AI literacy to leverage AI tools effectively while mitigating associated risks, ensuring continued relevance and high-quality output in an evolving technological landscape.
How to implement this in your domain
- 1Develop internal training modules on AI literacy tailored for legal professionals, focusing on generative AI capabilities and limitations.
- 2Establish guidelines for responsible AI tool usage in legal translation, addressing ethical, legal, and quality control aspects.
- 3Pilot AI-assisted translation workflows with critical human oversight to identify best practices and potential pitfalls.
- 4Encourage continuous learning and professional development in AI tools and their application within the legal domain.
Original post by {\L}ucja Biel
"arXiv:2608.04641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI is transforming legal translation by introducing opportunities alongside linguistic, technical, legal, ethical and cognitive risks. This chapter examines the implications of AI for professional legal translation and pr…"
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