DEPENDENCY ON AI LANGUAGE TOOLS: A THREAT TO LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY?
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15466102
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AI tools, linguistic diversity, language extinction, machine translation.Annotasiya
In recent years, language tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI), such as translation apps and multilingual chatbots, have changed how people communicate across languages. These tools make life easier, especially for non-native speakers, but they also bring risks. This paper argues that relying too much on AI in language use can harm linguistic diversity, especially for minority and endangered languages. Because AI systems are mainly trained on data from widely spoken languages like English, Chinese, and Spanish, less common languages—such as many Indigenous or regional languages—are left behind. This can cause those languages to fade away, along with the cultural knowledge they carry. Using ideas from sociolinguistics and language ecology, the paper looks at how AI might unintentionally promote language loss and suggests ways to build technology that helps protect and promote all languages, not just the dominant ones.
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