Welcome back to The AI Shift, our weekly deep dive into how AI is changing the world of work. This week, we’re looking at how things are going for professional translators. The short answer is: not well, but not necessarily in the way you might think.

Sarah writes

As some of you might know, I have been working on a book over the past few years in which I’ve travelled around the world to meet people on the front lines of technological change, from Hollywood writers and software developers to miners and supervisors of autonomous trucks. (My book is called We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work, and it is out today!)