What’s does job security look like for interpreters in the face of recent advances in artificial intelligence? Get the low down from Middlebury Institute of International Studies associate professor Barry Olson, a conference interpreter with 25 years of experience. Olson is also the founder of Interpret America.

In his in-depth review, Olsen breaks this moment in time into three baskets:

• Technologies for the delivery of interpreting services
• Technologies that augment an interpreter’s performance
• Technologies designed to replace human interpreters‘ purpose altogether

There are situations in which good enough is good enough — where AI more or less gets the job done. But in medical, legal and diplomatic venues, uncorrected mistakes could be catastrophic. Hold on tight as the future of interpreting reveals itself.