Abstract:

The development of AI has transformed the internal and external relations of translation, challenging the subjectivity of “human” in translation and triggering anxiety and reflection on whether human translators will and should give way to AI translation. In the AI era, the essence of technical issues or translation issues is all about “human”. From the perspective of “human”, this article explores three questions: whether translation will still exist in the AI era, how translation will exist, and how humans will exist in translation. It tries to re-examine translation and understand human translators in translation and the relationship between human and translation, as well as between human and the world, in order to encourage human translators to recognize, maintain, and uphold their self-awareness, subject status and ethical responsibility.

Key words: AI, translation, humanism