{"id":4131,"date":"2023-05-23T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:45:10","slug":"who-killed-the-eus-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/who-killed-the-eus-translators\/","title":{"rendered":"Who killed the EU\u2019s translators?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Automation is creeping into European Union institutions \u2014 and translators are among its first victims.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/author\/gregorio-sorgi\/\">GREGORIO SORGI<\/a>&nbsp;AND&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/author\/federica-di-sario\/\">FEDERICA DI SARIO<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Translators are essential cogs in the complex EU machine, as every single official text must be translated in the EU\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/translation-europe-quest-speak-ai-technology\/\">24 working languages<\/a>&nbsp;before entering into force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until a few years ago, this herculean task was carried out by humans alone. But no longer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figures from the European Commission, the EU\u2019s executive branch, indicate that its translation unit shrank by 17 percent over the last decade as it expanded its use of machine translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/translators-translation-european-union-eu-autmation-machine-learning-ai-artificial-intelligence-translators-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Automation is creeping into European Union institutions \u2014 and translators are among its first victims. BY&nbsp;GREGORIO SORGI&nbsp;AND&nbsp;FEDERICA DI SARIO Translators are essential cogs in the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/who-killed-the-eus-translators\/\" title=\"Who killed the EU\u2019s translators?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4131","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\/4131","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=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}