"Our Minds Are Porous and Forgetfulness Seeps In" A Conversation on Translation and AI with Ilan Stavans.
An interview with Ilan Stavans, a renowned scholar, translator, publisher, and teacher, is presented. He discussed the transformative yet troubling role of artificial intelligence in language, literature, and translation, comparing its impact to past innovations like the printing press and the inter...
| Published in: | World Literature Today Vol. 99; no. 6; pp. 32 - 37 |
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World Literature Today
Nov/Dec2025
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