{"id":4094,"date":"2023-04-28T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2023-04-28T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:42:43","slug":"ai-translation-is-jeopardizing-afghan-asylum-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/ai-translation-is-jeopardizing-afghan-asylum-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/author\/andrew-deck\/\">ANDREW DECK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, Uma Mirkhail got a firsthand demonstration of how damaging a bad translation can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A crisis translator specializing in Afghan languages, Mirkhail was working with a Pashto-speaking refugee who had fled Afghanistan. A U.S. court had denied the refugee\u2019s asylum bid because her written application didn\u2019t match the story told in the initial interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interviews, the refugee had first maintained that she\u2019d made it through one particular event alone, but the written statement seemed to reference other people with her at the time \u2014 a discrepancy large enough for a judge to reject her asylum claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Mirkhail went over the documents, she saw what had gone wrong: An automated translation tool had swapped the \u201cI\u201d pronouns in the woman\u2019s statement to \u201cwe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2023\/ai-translation-errors-afghan-refugees-asylum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/gdj-1086657\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1751201\">Gordon Johnson<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1751201\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#666666\"><strong>Las opiniones expresadas en esta publicaci\u00f3n son responsabilidad exclusiva de sus autores(as) y no representan necesariamente las opiniones de Conalti. Se proh\u00edbe la reproducci\u00f3n o copia total o parcial de esta publicaci\u00f3n sin la autorizaci\u00f3n previa y por escrito de sus autores(as).<\/strong><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By&nbsp;ANDREW DECK In 2020, Uma Mirkhail got a firsthand demonstration of how damaging a bad translation can be. A crisis translator specializing in Afghan languages, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/ai-translation-is-jeopardizing-afghan-asylum-claims\/\" title=\"AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-3-articulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}