AI IMPACT · TRANSLATION AND WRITING
These are heavily hit jobs: AI translates and writes correct texts fast.
But meaning, the right tone and ownership of the published text stay human, and expert review becomes a craft of its own.
Updated 16 October 2026
Across 10 common tasks of translators and writers: 4 stay with you, 2 are done with AI, 4 can be handed to it.
Ranking made by aviza for translators and writers, from the studies listed at the bottom of the page. It says what AI can do today, not what your role will become.
You translate or write: which of these tasks are really yours?
Your kit ranks the tasks of your own role, in your company, from your resume and what you tell us.
YOUR FIRST TRY, THIS WEEK
TO HIGHLIGHT IN AN INTERVIEW
Present post-editing as a skill: your method, your standards, and what you refuse to let through.
ISO 18587 on post-editing
What a professional review of machine-translated text must cover: the base for setting your standards.
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For specialists surveyed by Stanford, AI could already do most text correction on its own. Conversely, editing (choosing, building and defending a text) is the only occupation, out of 104 studied, where the people concerned want a human to stay essential.
Translation systems are among the AI tools LaborIA observed in French companies. The review and supervision work they require is real, but rarely recognised.
LaborIA (Inria and French Ministry of Labour), AI deployment guide, 2025
The Société française des traducteurs published a position statement on AI in 2024, for a framed and reasoned use.
Société française des traducteurs, position statement on AI, 2024
Knowing what a word really says, in a language and a culture.
Publishing nothing that is not accurate.
Writing a text people want to read.
It is reviewing and correcting a text translated by a machine. It is a skill in its own right, to put forward if you practise it.
It writes correct texts fast, but often flat and sometimes wrong. A text that must persuade, move or commit a company still needs a human pen and review.
Not without human review. On a contract, a medical notice or a technical document, a meaning error can have serious consequences: that is where your expertise counts most.
YOUR KIT, WRITTEN FOR YOUR ROLE
In a job heavily hit by AI, it is no longer enough to say "I translate" or "I write". You need to show what your work adds that a machine does not. Your kit starts from your languages, domains, clients and answers to put that precisely, and helps you present post-editing as an expertise.
Your languages, specialty domains and volumes, with what your review prevented.
A headline that states your language pairs and domains, with the keywords clients and agencies search for.
Three minutes to explain what you add that machine translation does not.
Questions on quality, deadlines, confidentiality and how you work with machine translation.
The tasks AI takes in your role, those that make your value, and your 90-day plan.
You upload your resume and answer about 8 questions, speaking or typing.
