AI Technologies in Language Access: Attitudes Towards AI and the Human Value of Language Access Managers
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Title:AI Technologies in Language Access: Attitudes Towards AI and the Human Value of Language Access Managers
Abstract:The rapid emergence of AI technologies is reshaping translation practices and theory across the board. This paper deals with the impact of AI in language access. This area is characterized by the need to serve broad and diverse user populations, within a context where efficiency and access are shaped by legal mandates, ethical and commercial tensions, and safety concerns. This paper reports on the attitudes and perceptions of language access managers towards the AI and the human value in the AI age. Methodologically, this paper presents an analysis of a subset of a broader study on language access and technology, specifically a qualitative thematic analysis of ten semi-structured interviews with language access managers in the USA working in healthcare, court, public service and local government contexts. The results indicate that language access managers show conditional optimism towards the inevitable AI implementations, are strongly risk aware, and deeply committed to the human value and human oversight of AI implementations and output.
| Comments: | 11 pages, 2 tables, Convergence Conference 2026 |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| MSC classes: | 91 |
| ACM classes: | A.1; K.4 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.19234 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2605.19234v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.19234
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From: Miguel A. Jimenez-Crespo [view email][v1] Tue, 19 May 2026 01:07:21 UTC (335 KB)
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