AI and Creative Translation: the Promise of Translalia

AI is often presented as a tool for overcoming “language barriers”, enabling quick and efficient communication between standardised versions of languages. In this webinar, Professor Matthew Reynolds, Department of English and Comparative Criticism, will take a more nuanced view, exploring how large language models can also open up creative, plural and ethically aware approaches to translation.

Professor Reynolds will consider what AI might make possible when translation is understood not only as a functional process, but as a creative practice shaped by linguistic variety, human choice and cultural complexity. He will also introduce the Translalia app, designed to support creative translation in schools.

This session will be especially relevant for anyone interested in AI, language, education, creativity, ethics, literature, translation, or multilingual practice.