Launching Babel Translation

Celeste and I are excited to launch Babel Translation , a nonprofit organization translating English-language writing on AI safety to be accessible to a global audience! We’re starting with Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. AI has been moving so fast . Its risks are indeed globally felt [1] , and we’d like to help make those risks understandable globally, too. But language remains a barrier to shared engagement in AI safety. Much writing & discussion is in English, and high-quality translations that preserve substance and nuance can be hard to find. Babel has a great founding team, including my wonderful friend Jinzhou , and we are excited to absorb more! Our previous work includes the Mandarin Chinese translation of METR’s OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report. Babel is also personally exciting. Celeste and I met a few months back, and we bonded over being diaspora kids who like languages, trying to make sense of the AI craziness and traveling around China together. I’m also excited to have more Chinese-language content to point my grandparents to when they ask me what this AI stuff is all about :) Work with us! Babel is (1) opening the call for translations and (2) hiring translation contractors. To reach out about either opportunity, email us at hello@aistranslate.org , or fill out a 2-minute form here . We’ll read and respond to every message! To request a translation: If you or your organization have impactful AI safety content you’d like translated (e.g. essays, bl…