The Tarjum blog

The future of translation and AI: who pays for quality, and who pays for speed?

Hamed al-Khatib · 5 November 2026

A first draft from AI is now cheap; review, errors and accountability are not. Here is what is really changing in translation, where AI falls short, what a 75,000-word book costs, and how the CAT tools and their plans compare.

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The future of Arabic translation in the age of AI

Hamed al-Khatib · 5 November 2026

From paper and the printing press to newspapers, translation institutions and digital publishing, this essay traces the history of translation and publishing in the Arab world, then asks: when AI makes writing cheaper, how do we guarantee quality and integrity? And who reviewed the text?