Document Type : Original Article
Researcher
Allameh Tabataba'i University
Ministerial Ethics Committee
This PhD thesis is a philosophical inquiry into the new paradigm of AI-mediated translation, which adopts a postphenomenological approach. In this new paradigm, the human translator has been replaced by an AI-translator; however, due to its prompt-based relationship, the interaction with this new translator is human-like. Therefore, the interaction between a translation client and an AI translator can be explored through a postphenomenological human–technology relation, wherein technology mediates the human perception of the world. Since a postphenomenological philosophical analysis is built on an empirical basis, this research work will first examine the practice of AI-mediated translation by conducting an empirical experiment with a number of participants to shed light on different aspects of the practice. It then analyzes the practice within the framework of Ihde’s human–technology relations and the concept of technological intentionality. It also explores the role of the subject and object alongside the technology in co-constituting the outcome of the relationship, i.e. the target text. The thesis finally presents a discussion on the agency of technology and user in the context of AI-mediated translation, to address who is responsible for translation in this new paradigm.